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CPU Utilization Question

Hi, I have a 4 host ESX 3.5 environment with DRS and HA running. The hosts are blades in an HP BL25 enclosure. They have 2 dual core AMD Opteron 1.8ghz Processors and all are loaded with 16gb of memory. One of my VM's shows it's average CPU usage as 96%. The host that this VM is running is only using 27% of the CPU for the host. So it is weird that the VM's CPU is pegging but it looks like there is more then enough CPU available on the host?

This VM is a Windows 2003 server that is running some security camera software which records and collects data on a separate RDM attached to this VM. I am wondering if there is anything I can try to get the CPU usage to go drop? We have about 25 VM's total on the 4 hosts. We do not use resource pools at all.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

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