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Extending VMWare ESXi Performance Data

Monday, May 25th, 2009

To enable ESXi to capture performance data up to 36 hours, simple access to the console and change the following file.

Edit /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml


< historicalStatsEnabled> true < /historicalStatsEnabled>

services.sh restart

The Guest OS’s Clock is running too fast in a Dual Core Host System

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

First – you will need to check the clock speed of the machine.

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq

1833000

then under VMWare Config – update the following parameters.

/etc/vmware/config

host.cpukHz = 1830000
host.noTSC = TRUE
ptsc.noTSC = TRUE