vmware esxi one vm high CPU usage - sharepoint 2019

[jcmfxt]

New sysadmin here.

environment:  VMware esxi vm running SharePoint server 2019 on Server 2019.

Issue: We had to reboot the server while working another issue.  Since about that time the VM CPU usage has been way up.  It was averaging 20ish % before reboot and now is at 70-80%.

When I looked at the processes in Resource Monitor they bounce around but every once in a while Noderunner.exe will be at 80 or 90 "current percent of CPU consumption by process".

Like I said I'm really new to the field and don't have another admin to assist and don’t even know where to start.

Thank you in advance!

CPU Usage

[virtsysadmin]

Hi

You are on correct path,  you need to find out which process inside the OS using high CPU and work on that.
"When I looked at the processes in Resource Monitor, they bounce around but every once in a while Noderunner.exe will be at 80 or 90"!
This behaviour is what we see from the vmware performance monitor as a result of what is happening inside the OS .
Could be this node picked the wordhoards after reboot or an AV started to work..
First isolating what is causing this and as long as not hitting 100% continuously, not reporting any slowness you do not need to worry.

what is the CPU configuration on the host and what is on the VM?