HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.3: Installation, Configuration, Administration

• 0: Stacked up values — Stacks up busy time, idle time,
and wait time vertically. Busy time is on the bottom
and wait time is on the top of the column.
• 1: Cumulative view — Stacks the busy time of multiple
guests from the left of the window and the wait time
of multiple guests from the right of the window. This
mode makes it possible to see how multiple guest
share the total available host time.
• 2: History — Displays a graph of historical values for
busy and wait time, showing the evolution of these
values over time.
• 3: Raw data — Displays one bar for each individual
value.
[-a | -A | vm-name [...]] The -a option displays only running guests. The -A option
displays all guests, including those that are not running.
If you specify one or more virtual machine names,
hpvmsar displays information about the specified virtual
machines.
DISPLAY OPTIONS
Subsets of data to be printed are specified by options:
Default Guest & Host Cpu usage
Display.
The command displays the vCpu and host Cpu utilization
statistics graphically using X11 only when the DISPLAY
environment is defined; otherwise it displays them as text.
The —M option displays all counts by vCPU.
In graphical mode, the hpvmsar command displays
information using the following conventions:
• Blue: Busy time - which counts whenever the guest
runs. It includes the time necessary to run the guest
operating system, guest applications, and virtual
machine monitor on behalf of the guest.
• Green: Idle time - which counts when the guest has
no activity and the CPU was returned to the host. The
same time may be counted as idle in multiple guest
simultaneously, therefore; the sum of idle times may
exceed 100%.
• Orange: Wait time - which counts when the guest was
preempted but had some activity pending. It indicates
that the guest could have used the time, but was
prevented, because it was preempted.
• Grey: Host time - which counts when the host is
running, as seen from the guest's point of view. Under
normal conditions, host time is approximately the sum
of idle time and wait time. Differences might arise
when context switch-time or interrupt time becomes
significant.
-D
Integrity VM Storage Metrics activity by guest
Display for the sample interval. The VM Host and guest
storage disk block devices are combined and presented on
a single line of output, along with performance and
utilization metrics.
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