Can I remove individual VM's on an ESXi host? -- resxtop performance chewing through the entire CPU

[Sean Hunter]

Sean Hunter [http://community.zenoss.org/people/jamesb2147] created the discussion

"Can I remove individual VM's on an ESXi host? -- resxtop performance chewing through the entire CPU"

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First off, hello Zenoss world!  :)

Secondly, after having wrestled the vSphere CLI installer into a Centos 6.x minimal install, I added a single ESXi host modeled (is that the proper term?) as a /Server/Virtual Machine Host/esxtop.  Zenoss 4.2 was installed using the autodeploy script from the install guide.

For some reason, my single ESXi host shows 239 virtual machines, which is interesting because it only has 7 VM's.  Examples of the other "VM's" include, but are not limited to:

aam
asyncTokenFrameSlab-0xfoobar
asyncTokenSlab-0xfoobar
ata.pata-v.00
ata.pata-v.01
ata.pata-v.02
...
busybox.2704
...
dcui
...


et cetera.  Any insight as to why this happened or how to resolve the issue are greatly appreciated!
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[Sean Hunter]

Sean Hunter [http://community.zenoss.org/people/jamesb2147] created the discussion

"Re: Can I remove individual VM's on an ESXi host? -- resxtop performance chewing through the entire CPU"

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Found the answer on an old thread that linked to this document:
http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-12909

There's a comment in there that describes adding RegEx to only show stats for running *virtual machines* rather than *system processes*.  Suggestion to code maintainers: Maintain a list of ESXi processes to exclude from Zenoss Core.
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