Month: October 2020

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VMWare CPU Limit effect on VM computing and disk speed – CPU stolen time

Symptoms:
Customer complaining about slow SQL server and event application timeout.
Hihg CPU usage and slow disk with bad disk time response.
Let’s check the the 4 CPU core:
Hihg CPU usage at night

At first glance, it seemed like a heavily used server.
The lack of server resources caused timeouts for the applications.

I suspect VMWare virtualization cause performance issue:

VMWare Virtualization CPU Stolen time
CPU Stolen time is high

Thanks for the teamwork, we found the settings which caused a poor performance: Continue reading “VMWare CPU Limit effect on VM computing and disk speed – CPU stolen time”