ESXi 5.5 U2 - esxtop ( performance issues )

[chicagovm]

Greetings,

I know many posts on this.. but I just need a bit of extra help on this please.

Can anyone please confirm or provide any input as to if the following esxtop stats are bad and to what degree. I am finding big difference between information when I choose esxtop than When looking at a specific VM using "l" and "e":

The following is when I run the commands l and e for a specfic VM.

The VM is Windows 2008 R2 - 4vCPU 8 GB RAM and on a host with 2 SOCKET - 6 core.

The %WAIT is showing 807.46 and %VMWAIT is showing .45 yet %CSTP is showing 0.00

Thank you soo much for anyone that can help

[virtualg_uk · Accepted solution]

This post from depping‌ should help work out the different between %VMWAIT and %WAIT: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/07/17/why-is-wait-so-high/

%VMWAIT is a derivative of %WAIT, however it does not include %IDLE time but does include %SWPWT and the time the VM is blocked for when a device is unavailable. That kind of reveals immediately why  %WAIT seems extremely high, it includes %IDLE! Another thing to note is the %WAIT for a VM is multiple worlds collided in to a single metric. Let me show you what I mean:

The blog post above should go a long way to help explain.