Installation guide

C H A P T E R 1 2 VMware ESX Server Resource Management
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The System Summary section at the top shows systemwide information. The Virtual
Machines section below it shows information for particular virtual machines.
You can also read the current CPU statistics for a virtual machine from its status file on
the service console. For example, to view the statistics for the virtual machine with ID
137, use this command:
cat /proc/vmware/vm/137/cpu/status
The results are displayed in the following format:
The output above is shown with additional line breaks, in order to avoid wrapping
long lines. All times are reported in seconds, with millisecond resolution. Min and max
percentages are reported as a percentage of a single processor.
The columns indicate:
vcpu vm name uptime status costatus usedsec syssec
137 137 vmm0:Win2kAS 357.866 RUN RUN 265.143 3.105
wait waitsec cpu affinity min max shares emin extrasec
NONE 51.783 0 0,1 02002000 72 124.758
vcpu Virtual CPU identifier
vm Virtual machine identifier
name Display name associated with the virtual machine
uptime Elapsed time since the virtual machine was powered on
status Current VCPU run state: running (RUN), ready to run (READY), waiting on
an event (WAIT or WAITB), terminating (ZOMBIE). There are additional
states for SMP virtual machines: ready with pending co-schedule
(CORUN), ready but co-descheduled (COSTOP).
costatus Current SMP virtual machine co-scheduling state: uniprocessor virtual
machine (NONE), ready to run (READY), co-scheduled (RUN), co-
descheduled (STOP).
usedsec Cumulative processor time consumed by the VCPU.
syssec Cumulative system time consumed by the VCPU.
wait Current VCPU wait event type: not waiting (NONE), idle (IDLE), file
system (FS), swap (SWPA, SWPS), remote procedure call (RPC), waiting
for request (RQ), and so on.
waitsec Cumulative VCPU wait time.
cpu Current VCPU processor assignment.
affinity Processor affinity for VCPU.
min Minimum processor percentage reservation for the virtual machine.
max Maximum processor percentage allowed for the virtual machine.