Answer by Paul M for Measuring CPU %steal on VMware and Hyper-V hypervisors
the vSphere cluster at work is overloaded, but the usual Zabbix measurement tool wasn't indicating CPU steal time. So many thanks to Dag, I took his test program and wrote a script just to print steal...
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The only way to get these (and more) performance counters inside a VMware guest, is by using the VMGuestLib SDK as shipped with the vmware-tools. I wrote a python wrapper for this library, called...
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Measuring CPU %steal on VMware and Hyper-V hypervisors
For Xen Linux guests, %steal time is readily available via top and other utilities. Is it possible to get this and related metrics from within a Linux guest when running a non-Xen hypervisor such as...
View ArticleAnswer by Raul for Measuring CPU %steal on VMware and Hyper-V hypervisors
As I understand, you are counting total stolen milliseconds.At this point you know few about the steal impact.If you calculate the stolen milliseconds divided by the amount of VMs you'll get the stolen...
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