I think you guys are going to get a great laugh out of this one
It's been a bit warmer in my office lately so I didn't think anything of my ESXI AIO box running a bit louder (fans rpm up) but it's been over a day now and cooler at night (almost midnight) so I thought I should login to vshepere and ssh to see what's actually going on.
- Only VM powered up is omniOS & no active streaming / file sharing going on
- OmniOS (used for esxi as aio / providing storage) showing ~500mhz utilized
- Host showing ~ 3.5Ghz utilized
- Fans def. running 300RPM+ more than idle even when doing a lot of file-work on OmniOS (ZFS) via NFS
Made me wonder WHATTTTTTTTTTT is going on... to be eating all that CPU.... checked the performance tab for my host and saw that DCUI was using a lot of CPU... went into SSH and did an esxtop to get a bit more granular and DCUI was once again #1... nothing much else going on.
I'm thinking to myself how can the console be doing anything (after I looked up DCUI as I'm not a VMWare Pro) it's behind my desk right now (while testing) and I know no one is using the console.
Sooooooo.... I stand up to examine it (gotta turn on the screen) it's on the yellow splash, I look down to login and a SSD I had sitting behind the keyboard fell onto one of the F Keys and that was apparently freaking out ESXI even though I was not logged into console and it was NOT the F key to change setting / invoke a login.
So! Lesson learned, holding down a key even when not logged in was freaking ESXI out enough to use 3.5Ghz of CPU!! Keyboard removed!
My power usage went from 175W to 125W. (N0 VM running)
Have a laugh at my expense
It's been a bit warmer in my office lately so I didn't think anything of my ESXI AIO box running a bit louder (fans rpm up) but it's been over a day now and cooler at night (almost midnight) so I thought I should login to vshepere and ssh to see what's actually going on.
- Only VM powered up is omniOS & no active streaming / file sharing going on
- OmniOS (used for esxi as aio / providing storage) showing ~500mhz utilized
- Host showing ~ 3.5Ghz utilized
- Fans def. running 300RPM+ more than idle even when doing a lot of file-work on OmniOS (ZFS) via NFS
Made me wonder WHATTTTTTTTTTT is going on... to be eating all that CPU.... checked the performance tab for my host and saw that DCUI was using a lot of CPU... went into SSH and did an esxtop to get a bit more granular and DCUI was once again #1... nothing much else going on.
I'm thinking to myself how can the console be doing anything (after I looked up DCUI as I'm not a VMWare Pro) it's behind my desk right now (while testing) and I know no one is using the console.
Sooooooo.... I stand up to examine it (gotta turn on the screen) it's on the yellow splash, I look down to login and a SSD I had sitting behind the keyboard fell onto one of the F Keys and that was apparently freaking out ESXI even though I was not logged into console and it was NOT the F key to change setting / invoke a login.
So! Lesson learned, holding down a key even when not logged in was freaking ESXI out enough to use 3.5Ghz of CPU!! Keyboard removed!
My power usage went from 175W to 125W. (N0 VM running)
Have a laugh at my expense