I have the following set up:
Host server - Dual 2.8 GHz Xeon processor, 4 GB RAM, Windows 2000, GSX v 3.1.0
This hosts a single Guest operating system
Guest - Windows 2000.
I understand from the blurb that the GUEST system will always report a single CPU configuration, but that the threads are shared between the two processors by the underlying GSX server. So, in effect, my GUEST could be considered almost as a single 5.6 GHz processor server in terms of performance
However.....
I'm connected via Remote Desk Top to both the HOST and the GUEST servers and looking at the CPU traces using Task Manager on both.
My GUEST shows that it is using 100% CPU...absolutely flat lining. Looking at the processes on the GUEST, it's not a single process that's hogging the CPU, but SQLServer and DLLHOST are sharing approximately 80% of the CPU, Winzip using most of the remaining 20%.
The Host on the other hand shows approximately equal usage of both processors, both using on average less
than 20%. Looking very quiet indeed!!
To my mind, this is showing me that the GUEST server is not making full use of the available CPU resources. There's nothing else running on the HOST server apart from GSX and this single GUEST server, so I'm really wanting the GUEST server to use all the CPU power on the box if at all possible.
Is there some configuration setting that I've overlooked here that would enable this to be the case?
Thanks in advance
Griff