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Reference Guide
•“Infrastructure Overview” on page 108
•“Alarms Overview” on page 111
•“Alarms List View” on page 112
VMW Resource Pool Percent Ready
Purpose
This rule fires an alarm to report that when a virtual machine within the resource pool is
requesting CPU cycles from the ESX Server on which it is running, it is not receiving
them some percentage of the time. This will impact performance on the virtual machine.
Scope
VMWResourcePool
Views Displaying Alarms Based on this Rule
•“Virtual Infrastructure View” on page 98
•“vmExplorer Primary View” on page 100
•“Summary View” on page 101
Rule Definition
Conditions State Action
When the virtual machine requests CPU cycles, it is
only not receiving them 2 percent or less of the time.
Normal None
When the virtual machine requests CPU cycles, it is
not receiving them greater than 2 percent but no
greater than 8 percent of the time.
Warning None
When the virtual machine requests CPU cycles, it is
not receiving them greater than 8 percent but no
greater than 12 percent of the time.
Critical E-mail
VMW admin
When the virtual machine requests CPU cycles, it is
not receiving them greater than 12 percent of the
time.
Fatal E-mail
VMW admin