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if cpu demand is more than cpu usage should I increase cpu
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if cpu demand is more than cpu usage should I increase cpu

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difficult to answer, you really need a good baseline of performance of the machine.<br />
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an easy guide and tool is <br />
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<a href="http://www.veeam.com/esxi-monitoring-free.html" rel="ugc">http://www.veeam.com/esxi-monitoring-free.html</a>.
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difficult to answer, you really need a good baseline of performance of the machine.

an easy guide and tool is

http://www.veeam.com/esxi-monitoring-free.html [http://www.veeam.com/esxi-monitoring-free.html].

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im using vsphere 5.0<br />
I want to setup alarms to alert me when virtual servers are suffering from high memory and cpu usage<br />
so that I can know when to add memory or add extra cpu<br />
am I right in thinking that when a virtual server cpu is running around 80% this is fine so I should set my alarms to trigger if say memory and cpu is at 99% for 1 min or more<br />
the cpu metrics and memory metrics inside vsphere can be quite confusing
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im using vsphere 5.0
I want to setup alarms to alert me when virtual servers are suffering from high memory and cpu usage
so that I can know when to add memory or add extra cpu
am I right in thinking that when a virtual server cpu is running around 80% this is fine so I should set my alarms to trigger if say memory and cpu is at 99% for 1 min or more
the cpu metrics and memory metrics inside vsphere can be quite confusing

best practice for setting virtual server memory and cpu alarms in vsphere

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