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An administrator is concerned about possible vCPU over-commitment for an ESXi 6.x host. Which two Performance Counters should be reviewed in the vSphere Web Client Performance Charts to confirm if the
The correct answer is B. Ready D. Co-Stop. To detect vCPU over-commitment and scheduling contention on an ESXi host, administrators should monitor the Ready and Co-Stop performance counters, as these directly reflect CPU scheduling delays.
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An administrator is concerned about possible vCPU over-commitment for an ESXi 6.x host. Which two Performance Counters should be reviewed in the vSphere Web Client Performance Charts to confirm if there is contention on the host? (Choose two.)
Options
- AWait
- BReady
- CCore Utilization
- DCo-Stop
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(60 responses)- A7% (4)
- B90% (54)
- C3% (2)
Why each option
To detect vCPU over-commitment and scheduling contention on an ESXi host, administrators should monitor the Ready and Co-Stop performance counters, as these directly reflect CPU scheduling delays.
The Wait counter reflects time spent waiting for I/O or swap operations rather than CPU scheduling contention, so it does not indicate vCPU over-commitment.
The Ready counter measures the percentage of time a vCPU was ready to run but could not be scheduled on a physical CPU, which is the primary indicator of CPU contention caused by over-commitment. A sustained Ready value above 10% signals that the host cannot service virtual machines fast enough.
Core Utilization shows the percentage of physical core capacity consumed but does not reveal whether virtual machines are experiencing scheduling delays or contention.
The Co-Stop counter measures the percentage of time an SMP virtual machine was waiting for all of its vCPUs to be co-scheduled simultaneously, which directly exposes contention caused by having more vCPUs than available physical CPU threads.
Concept tested: ESXi CPU contention performance counters Ready and Co-Stop
Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-671-monitoring-performance-guide.pdf
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