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Bogus CPU usage
cyberguypr
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Before I go down the rabbit hole chasing this, does anyone have an idea what is going on here?
We have 4 identical BL460c blades and for some reason one is reporting this weird CPU usage. We wiped it and gave it a fresh install of 5.5 but the issue remains.
Thanks in advance for any pointers.
We have 4 identical BL460c blades and for some reason one is reporting this weird CPU usage. We wiped it and gave it a fresh install of 5.5 but the issue remains.
Thanks in advance for any pointers.
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OptionsEssendon Member Posts: 4,546 ■■■■■■■■■■I am not sure what's going on, but have you done a firmware upgrade of the blades/matrix at all? Possible firmware mismatch? Try plonking it into a spare bay if there's one?
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Optionsjibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□We used 460Cs as well and I never seen that before .. That is so random .. I presume the VM view of that host doesn't show anything out of the ordinary ?My own knowledge base made public: http://open902.com
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Optionscyberguypr Mod Posts: 6,928 ModWe actually updated blade and chassis firmware last week. Issue was still present then. It has the latest and greatest. Unfortunately no open bays, although I could swap a couple, but since they are offsite and need to open a ticket with the colo, that sounds like a Monday morning thing
VMs are cruising, doing nothing. Only host CPU usage alert gets triggered.
Random fact: I just noticed the VMs were set by a mysterious hand to DHCP and grabbed IPs on the APIPA range. -
Optionscyberguypr Mod Posts: 6,928 ModIssue still happens in maintenance mode. There was one VM on the box and I migrated it to simplify the equation. No dice.
Checked ESXTOP for giggles:
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Optionstomtom1 Member Posts: 375Your %USED and %WAIT on the hostd is very high! Try restarting some core services (put the host in maintenance mode first, so no active VM's are on the host).
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Optionscyberguypr Mod Posts: 6,928 ModBeen there done that with no effect whatsoever. Just to recap, there are no VMs on this host.
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OptionsLeifAlire Member Posts: 106Maybe the vendor sent you a beta cpu that will be released at a later date2015 Goals: VCP-550 - CISA - 70-417
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Optionsnetsysllc Member Posts: 479 ■■■■□□□□□□Sounds like a bad CPU possibly, I had one recently I thought was a bad CPU but turned out to be fixed with a BIOS update Geek Babble | Unexplained High CPU usage on Hyper-V host and Guests
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Optionscyberguypr Mod Posts: 6,928 ModQuick update: Working with HP but all testing comes back clean. Nothing points to hardware issues.
Also tried running Ubuntu live. CPU seems to be cruising there.
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Optionsjibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□Long shot but tried to reset the bios ?My own knowledge base made public: http://open902.com
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Optionscyberguypr Mod Posts: 6,928 ModYeah, done that two times, before and after the firmware update.
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OptionsTheProf Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 331 ■■■■□□□□□□Have you tried removing the shared storage temporarily? I had an issue once where for some odd reason, adding a LUN to the ESXi host would crash host due to high CPU usage, couldn't figure what it was, tried different storage platforms too, same result. Ended up replacing the blade all together.