Month August 2022

vSphere CPU Scheduler

In vSphere 6.7 VMware introduced CPU Scheduler options that allows the Administrators to secure against CPU exploits by defining how the VM access the CPU. These CPU Schedulers have different impact on performance. This article shows why and how they work.

Output of ESXtop results unreadable

Terminal on Mac uses by default xTerm-256color – this is not supported by ESXi and will result in garbled display when you run commands like ESXtop. To get an output that is readable we need to change the terminal display…

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