Foglight for VMware 5.8.3 - User Guide

On the VMware Environment dashboard, on the Monitoring tab, in the Virtual Environment Overview, select the Datastores tile.

In the Quick-View, in the Datastores view, select a datastore node.

In the Summary - Datastore view that appears, click a datastore.

The Datastore tab appears in the display area.

This view is made up of the following embedded views:

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Related Components Views

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Resource Utilizations

Table 128. Related Components Views

Shows the numbers and states of the components associated with this datastore.

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Datacenter. The name of the datacenter associated with this datastore, followed by the related alarm counts.

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Virtual Center. The name of the virtual center associated with this datastore, followed by the related alarm counts.

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Virtual Machines. The number of virtual machines that are associated with the selected datastore, followed by the related alarm counts.

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Alarm count. Displays the Alarms dialog box that shows a list of all related alarms. For each alarm entry, it shows its severity, the time at which it was triggered, the rule name that triggered the alarm, and the alarm message.

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Datacenter, Virtual Center, or a Virtual Machine. For more information, see Summary tab.

Table 129. Resource Utilizations

Shows the resource consumption for the selected datastore broken down into four simple views.

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Capacity. The total space allocated to this datastore.

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Datastore. The name of the selected datastore, followed by the related alarm counts.

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Est. Time Until Full. The estimated amount of time after which this datastore becomes full.

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Free. The amount of free space for this datastore.

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Max File Size. The maximum file size for this datastore.

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Percent Free. The percent of free space for this datastore.

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Type. The datastore type.

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URL. The datastore URL.

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Used. The amount of used space for this datastore.

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Weekly Growth Rate. The average amount of space the datastore expands every week.

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Free or Percent Free. Displays the Storage Used dialog box.

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Used. Displays the Logical Drive Utilization dialog box.

Datastore view

Purpose

The Datastore view shows the performance and utilization metrics for a selected datastore.

Figure 100. Datastore view


	NOTE: The VSAN Physical Disks, VSAN Virtual Disks, and VSAN Topology tabs appear in this view only if a VSAN Datastore is selected. For more information about VSAN datastores, see VSAN datastores .

On the VMware Environment dashboard, on the Monitoring tab, in the Virtual Environment Overview, select the Datastores tile.

In the Quick-View, in the Datastores view, select a datastore node.

In the Summary - Datastore view that appears, click Explore.

The Datastore view appears in the display area.

This view is made up of the following embedded views:

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FAQts tab

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Datastore Capacity (Utilization tab)

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Datastore Capacity table (Utilization tab)

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Datastore Performance (Performance tab)

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Datastore Total I/O and Latency (Performance tab)

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Local VMware Disk: VM Objects On Disk (VSAN Physical Disks tab, VSAN datastores only)

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Physical Disk Placement (VSAN Virtual Disks tab, VSAN datastores only)

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Physical Disks (VSAN Physical Disks tab, VSAN datastores only)

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SAN Topology tab

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Virtual Disks (VSAN Virtual Disks tab, VSAN datastores only)

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VSAN Topology tab (VSAN datastores only)

Table 130. FAQts tab
Description	Shows answers to common questions about your environment. For complete details about the information that appears on this tab, see FAQts tab .

Table 131. Datastore Capacity (Utilization tab)

Contains information about the selected datastore data capacity.

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Datastore, In Use. The percentage of disk space in use.

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Datastore, Name. The datastore name.

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Current Utilization, Allocated. The percentage of the total disk space that is allocated to the virtual machines associated with the selected datastore.

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Current Utilization, Available Space. The amount of the datastore disk space that is available for use.

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Current Utilization, Capacity. The total amount of the datastore disk space, including the space in use and the available space.

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Current Utilization, In use. The percentage of the total disk space that is currently in use.

Table 132. Datastore Capacity table (Utilization tab)

Lists the virtual machines associated with the selected datastore.

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Name. The virtual machine name

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Space Allocated. The amount of disk space allocated to the virtual machine.

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Space Used. The amount of disk space the virtual machine currently uses.

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Weekly Growth Rate. The estimated growth pattern of the used disk space for the virtual machine.

Name. For more information, see Summary tab.

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Table 133. Datastore Performance (Performance tab)

Shows the levels of disk resources used by the virtual machines associated with the selected datastore.

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I/O Distribution. A pie chart indicating how much disk space the individual virtual machines are using.

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VM Offenders, ESX Host Name. The name of the ESX host on which the virtual machine is running.

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VM Offenders, I/O. The rate at virtual machine writes or reads data from the disk associated with the selected datastore.

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VM Offenders, IOps. The number of disk I/O operations the virtual machine processes per second.

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VM Offenders, Latency. The data transfer latency.

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VM Offenders, Name. The name of the virtual machine.

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VM Offenders, ESX Host Name or VM Offenders, Name. For more information, see Summary tab.

Table 134. Datastore Total I/O and Latency (Performance tab)

Shows the disk latency and throughput rates for the selected datastore.

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Datastore, Avg/Peak Latency. The average and peak latency rates for the selected datastore.

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Datastore, I/O. The data transfer rates for the selected datastore.

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Latency. The datastore latency rates over the selected time range.

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Throughput. The datastore disk throughput rates over the selected time range.

Table 135. Local VMware Disk: VM Objects On Disk (VSAN Physical Disks tab, VSAN datastores only)

Lists the visual machines associated with the selected disk in the Physical Disks view.

NOTE: This view appears on the VSAN Physical Disks tab. This tab is only available when a VSAN Datastore is selected. For more information about VSAN datastores, see VSAN datastores .

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Object Type. The type of the topology object representing the virtual machine.

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Parent VM. The name of the virtual machine associated with the selected disk.

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VM Object. The topology object representing the virtual machine.

Parent VM. For more information, see Summary tab.

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Table 136. Physical Disk Placement (VSAN Virtual Disks tab, VSAN datastores only)

Lists the visual machines associated with the selected virtual machine in the Virtual Disks view.

NOTE: This view appears on the VSAN Virtual Disks tab. This tab is only available when a VSAN Datastore is selected. For more information about VSAN datastores, see VSAN datastores .

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Component State. The virtual machine state, for example, ACTIVE.

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Flash Disk Name. The name of the flash disk associated with the virtual machine.

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Flash Disk UUID. The universally unique identifies (UUID) of the flash disk associated with the virtual machine.

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HDD Disk Name. The name of the hard disk associated with the virtual machine.

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HDD Disk UUID. The universally unique identifies (UUID) of the hard disk associated with the virtual machine.

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Host. The name of the ESX host on which the virtual machine is running.

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Type. The type of the virtual machine such as Component or Witness.

Host. For more information, see Summary tab.

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Table 137. Physical Disks (VSAN Physical Disks tab, VSAN datastores only)

Lists the physical disks associated with the selected VSAN datastore.

NOTE: This view appears on the VSAN Physical Disks tab. This tab is only available when a VSAN Datastore is selected. For more information about VSAN datastores, see VSAN datastores .

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Capacity. The total space on the disk, including the available space and the space in use.

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Capacity Reserved. The amount of space on disk that is reserved for some special purpose, for example, when the disk becomes full, or for some specific privileged processes.

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Capacity Used. The amount of disk space on that is currently used.

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Disk Group. The disk group to which the disk belongs.

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Drive Type. The disk type. For example, HDD or Flash.

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Name. A navigation tree with an ESX host as the root, and physical disks as child nodes.

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Operational Status. The current operational disk status.

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VSAN Health Status. The status of the VSAN the disk is associated with.

Table 138. SAN Topology tab
Description	This view appears only if you have Foglight for Storage Management installed and enabled. For more information, see the Foglight for Storage Management documentation.

Table 139. Virtual Disks (VSAN Virtual Disks tab, VSAN datastores only)

Lists the virtual machines associated with the selected VSAN datastore.

NOTE: This view appears on the VSAN Virtual Disks tab. This tab is only available when a VSAN Datastore is selected. For more information about VSAN datastores, see VSAN datastores .

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Name. A navigation tree with a virtual machine as the root, and virtual machine topology objects as child nodes.

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Object Type. The type of the topology object representing the virtual machine.

Table 140. VSAN Topology tab (VSAN datastores only)
Description	Visualizes the relationships between the selected VSAN datastore and other objects in your environment through an interactive dependency map. The map illustrates how different components relate to each other, and the levels of the available resources available to them. Topology views are also available for other components on the VMware Environment dashboard. For complete information about topology views, see Topology views .

ESX Host Summary view

Purpose

The ESX Host Summary view shows the overall resource utilization and the amounts of system resource consumption for a physical ESX host.

Figure 101. ESX Host Summary view

On the VMware Environment dashboard, on the Monitoring tab, in the Virtual Environment Overview, select the ESX Hosts tile.

In the Quick-View, select a ESX host node in the ESX Hosts view.

The ESX Host Summary view appears on the right.

This view is made up of the following embedded views:

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Alarms

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Related Items

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Resource Utilizations

Table 141. Alarms

Lists the alarms generated against the selected ESX host.

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Alarm Message. An explanation about why the alarm occurred.

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Severity. Indicates the alarm severity: Warning, Critical, or Fatal.

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Time. The time when the alarm was generated.

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Alarm Message, Severity, or Time. Displays the Alarm dialog box, showing additional information about the alarm. For more information about alarms in Foglight, see the Foglight User Help.

Table 142. Related Items

Shows the numbers and states of the selected ESX host and other components associated with the host.

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Datacenter. The name of the datacenter associated with the selected ESX host.

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Datastores. The number of datastores that are associated with the selected ESX host, followed by the related alarm counts.

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ESX Hosts. The name of the selected host, followed by the related alarm counts.

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Resource Pools. The number of resource pools that are associated with the selected ESX host, followed by the related alarm counts.

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Virtual Center. The name of the virtual center associated with the selected ESX host, followed by the related alarm counts.

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Virtual Machines. The number of virtual machines that are associated with the selected ESX host, followed by the related alarm counts.

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Datacenter. Displays the Datacenters Inventory dwell, showing the name and state of the datacenter associated with the selected ESX host.

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Datastores. Displays the Datastores Inventory dwell, showing the names and states of all datastores that are associated with the selected ESX host.

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ESX Host. Displays the ESX Hosts Inventory dwell, showing the name and state of the selected ESX host.

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Resource Pools. Displays the Resource Pools Inventory dwell, showing the names and states of all resource pools that are associated with the selected ESX host.

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Virtual Center. Displays the Virtual Centers Inventory dwell, showing the name and state of the virtual center associated with the selected ESX host.

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Virtual Machines. Displays the Virtual Machines Inventory dwell, showing the names and states of all virtual machines that are associated with the selected ESX host.

Table 143. Resource Utilizations

Shows the resource consumption for the selected ESX host broken down into four simple views.

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CPU Load. The current percentage of the selected ESX host’s CPU load, used to execute system code and user programs, based on the total CPU capacity.

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CPU Utilization, Baseline. An envelope indicating the expected CPU utilization range based on historical data.

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CPU Utilization, % Ready. The percentage of the ESX host’s CPU resources that is ready to execute system code and user programs during the selected time period.

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CPU Utilization, % Used. The percentage of the CPU utilization used by ESX hosts to execute system code and user programs, during the selected time period.

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Datastore I/O. The current datastore I/O rate for the selected ESX host.

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Datastore Utilization, Baseline. An envelope indicating the expected datastore utilization range based on historical data.

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Datastore Utilization, Transfer Rate. The rate at which data was read from and written to the datastore of the selected ESX host during the specified time period.

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Memory Utilization, Baseline. An envelope indicating the expected memory utilization range based on historical data.

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Memory Utilization, Utilization. The current percentage of the average memory usage by the selected ESX host, based on the total memory capacity.

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Network I/O. The current rate at which the selected ESX host transfers data from and to the network.

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Network Utilization, Baseline. An envelope indicating the expected network utilization range based on historical data.

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Network Utilization, Transfer Rate. The rate at which the selected ESX host transfers data to and from the network during the selected time period.

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CPU Load spinner. Displays the CPU Load dialog box.

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CPU Utilization graph. Displays the CPU Utilization dialog box.

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Disk I/O spinner. Displays the Disk I/O dialog box.

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Disk Utilization graph. Displays the Disk Utilization dialog box.

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Memory Utilization graph. Displays the Memory Utilization dialog box.

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Network I/O spinner. Displays the Network I/O dialog box.

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Network Utilization graph. Displays the Network Utilization dialog box.

Summary - All ESX Hosts view

Purpose

The Summary - All ESX Hosts view displays overall resource utilization information for a group of physical ESX hosts and shows the elements that consume the highest amount of system resources.

Figure 102. Summary - All ESX Hosts view

On the VMware Environment dashboard, on the Monitoring tab, in the Virtual Environment Overview, select the ESX Hosts tile.

In the Quick-View, select the Summary node in the ESX Hosts view.

The Summary - All ESX Hosts view appears on the right.

This view is made up of the following embedded views:

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Alarms

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Top CPU Consumers

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Top Datastore Consumers

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Top Memory Consumers

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Top Network Consumers

Table 144. Alarms

Lists the alarms generated against the monitored system.

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Alarm Message. An explanation about why the alarm occurred.

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Severity. Indicates the alarm severity: Warning, Critical, or Fatal.

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Time. The time at which the alarm was generated.

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Alarm Message. Links to the ESX Host Summary view .

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Severity. Displays the Alarm Created dialog box, showing additional information about the alarm. For more information about alarms in Foglight, see the Foglight User Help.

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Time. Links to the ESX Host Summary view .

Table 145. Top CPU Consumers

Shows the top three ESX hosts with the highest average CPU utilization.

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ESX Host. The name of the ESX host.

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Used Hz.The amount of CPU processing speed each of the top three CPU consumers spend on executing system code and user programs, during the selected time range.