ESXi Server with 12 physical cores maxed out with only 8 cores assigned in virtual machines
- by Sam
I have an ESXi 5 server running on a 2-processor, 12-core system with hyperthreading enabled. So: 12 physical cores, 24 logical ones. On this server are 4 Windows 7 VMs, each configured for 2 processors, each running VMware Tools.
Looking at my stats in vSphere, my "core utilization" is constantly maxed out. Yes, these machines are working hard,…