[dba-VB] Hyper-V VM oddness

I think I have found the answer to the question, which is that the "host" windows system is not in 
fact the host system, Hyper-V is the host system.  And Hyper-V is in fact showing 6% usage which is 
one out of 16 cores.

Sorry for the ring.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 11/22/2011 10:05 PM, jwcolby wrote:
> I decided to try moving my VMs to Azul server, my "big" server. I figured with 16 cores and 64 gigs
> it could handle the load. The sole purpose of one of the VMs is to host a third party application.
> When this app is running the VM says that the single core I assign to it is pegged, 100%
> utilization. However none of the host machine cores shows any significant usage, and the total
> server usage bounces between 0 and 1%.
>
> So I'm wondering what the heck is going on? The application on the dedicated VM server was
> processing about 8-9 million records per hour on a 3.5 GHz AMD quad core, and on that host machine
> one of the cores would appear to be maxed out and the server would say 25% usage. On the mongo
> server the CPUs are 2 GHz 8 core and no core says it is busy and I'm only getting about 4 million
> records / hour. I expected one core to max and the total to say 1/16th total usage.
>
> Any ideas why this VM says it is using 100% of its virtual CPU but the host server says it is not
> busy at all?
>