Hi Bob. I've logged into both witness esxi appliances and esxtop simply shows the 'system' process consuming a steady CPU %USED of 45 and a %RDY of ~50-60 which, from what I've been reading, in...
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Hi Bob. I've logged into both witness esxi appliances and esxtop simply shows the 'system' process consuming a steady CPU %USED of 45 and a %RDY of ~50-60 which, from what I've been reading, indicates cpu contention.... but the host esxi shows each witness 'world' with a very low %RDY which indicates it's getting all the CPU it's requesting(?) The esxi host is a Dell Poweredge with 2 x 4 core CPU's (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5667 @ 3.07GHz) 128GB RAM Each witness was installed with 'normal' setting from the OVF. 16GB RAM, 2 vcpu's. (there are a couple of other low use VM's on the box as well but it is well under utilized from a memory or disk perspective) Anyway, Just thought I'd throw it out there and would be curious to know how this compares with other witness appliances. This may be just the normal idle state of an embedded esxi within an esxi, idk. Thx, -a esxtop from within one of the the witness esxi appliance 4:11:05pm up 55 days 21:09, 590 worlds, 0 VMs, 0 vCPUs; CPU load average: 0.24, 0.23, 0.22 PCPU USED(%): 60 9.7 AVG: 35 PCPU UTIL(%): 100 10 AVG: 55 ID GID NAME NWLD %USED %RUN %SYS %WAIT %VMWAIT %RDY %IDLE %OVRLP %CSTP %MLMTD %SWPWT 1 1 system 170 45.61 193.84 0.00 16974.81 - 59.31 0.00 18.09 0.00 0.00 0.00 88798951 88798951 esxtop.13388107 1 5.48 5.77 0.00 95.40 - 0.06 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 11350 11350 hostd.2099283 27 1.04 1.04 0.00 2700.00 - 0.07 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 15968 15968 vpxa.2099911 38 0.13 0.13 0.00 3800.00 - 0.05 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 222771 222771 sh.2136210 1 0.10 0.10 0.00 100.00 - 0.41 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 18963 18963 dcui.2100333 4 0.08 0.08 0.00 400.00 - 0.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 223299 223299 python.2136276 33 0.08 0.08 0.00 3300.00 - 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 ... esxtop from within the host esxi 4:19:38pm up 63 days 14:38, 680 worlds, 4 VMs, 7 vCPUs; CPU load average: 0.52, 0.54, 0.54 PCPU USED(%): 71 9.6 23 54 23 24 23 20 10 5.6 4.5 47 8.2 8.0 3.8 63 AVG: 25 PCPU UTIL(%): 74 15 39 59 36 38 37 29 10 6.1 5.8 44 8.6 8.1 5.1 60 AVG: 30 CORE UTIL(%): 80 82 61 57 15 47 16 63 AVG: 53 ID GID NAME NWLD %USED %RUN %SYS %WAIT %VMWAIT %RDY %IDLE %OVRLP %CSTP %MLMTD %SWPWT 358419 358419 hostd.2169563 37 126.64 139.63 0.00 3552.60 - 23.59 0.00 0.25 0.00 0.00 0.00 368325 368325 abs-vsan-witnes 13 115.03 111.46 0.06 1193.98 0.00 0.24 89.24 0.11 0.00 0.00 0.00 370468 370468 abs-vsan-witnes 13 111.59 104.88 0.08 1200.57 0.00 0.16 96.01 0.11 0.00 0.00 0.00 1 1 system 309 33.21 1232.67 0.00 29402.59 - 414.86 0.00 14.78 0.00 0.00 0.00 2714598 2714598 absvc1 11 10.47 10.57 0.06 1093.81 0.02 0.37 190.07 0.07 0.00 0.00 0.00 2754165 2754165 esxtop.2648390 1 5.29 4.99 0.01 95.46 - 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 498795 498795 WitnessRouter 10 0.24 0.25 0.01 1000.00 0.00 0.03 100.85 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00