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VM Performance monitoring and reference

CPU Ready

Description: CPU Ready is the time a vCPU is ready to run but is not being scheduled on a physical CPU

Cause: CPU Contention

Measurement: CPU Ready realtime from vSphere GUI (20 seconds data points)
Units: ms
Good: < 1000 ms -> (1000 / (20s * 1000)) * 100 = 5%
Bad: > 2000 ms -> (2000 / (20s * 1000)) * 100 = 10%

Measurement: CPU Ready realtime from esxtop
Units: %
Good: < 5%
Bad: > 10%

References:

Converting between CPU summation and CPU % ready values


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