I am looking at my ESXTOP output and from what I can see, my CPU load is OK, and my %PCPU is OK. My question is can anyone tell me what this SYSTEM metric for %Ready is and why it is so high compared to my VMs which seem to have an acceptable %RDY? I am having issues with "pokey" VMs. What I am noticing is that my %VMWAIT seems to spike frequently for a VM but my CPU utilization seems to be acceptable? I know I am missing something here. Thanks.
2:36:27pm up 5 days 16:04, 671 worlds, 3 VMs, 14 vCPUs; CPU load average: 0.21, 0.22, 0.24
PCPU USED(%): 20 22 30 1.9 33 3.2 6.7 28 5.0 31 3.6 32 33 0.1 28 1.3 0.2 0.2 0.3 30 28 0.0 32 0.0 15 0.0 11 0.2 7.9 0.1 31 0.0 AVG: 13
PCPU UTIL(%): 19 21 30 2.5 31 3.9 7.4 27 5.4 29 4.0 29 30 0.2 25 1.4 0.2 0.2 0.3 28 26 0.1 29 0.1 13 0.1 10 0.3 8.5 0.1 28 0.1 AVG: 13
CORE UTIL(%): 39 31 33 32 33 33 30 26 0.4 28 26 29 13 10 8.5 29 AVG: 25
ID GID NAME NWLD %USED %RUN %SYS %WAIT %VMWAIT %RDY %IDLE %OVRLP %CSTP %MLMTD %SWPWT
13679 13679 AAAASERVER02 16 153.50 140.51 0.05 1468.00 0.43 0.13 362.65 0.18 0.00 0.00 0.00
133816 133816 ZZZSERVER02 14 130.42 120.65 0.09 1285.00 16.59 0.11 264.48 0.14 0.00 0.00 0.00
13664 13664 PP01 15 54.34 50.21 0.11 1457.78 2.39 0.05 450.44 0.12 0.00 0.00 0.00
1 1 system 298 1.12 2875.21 0.00 26664.11 - 341.75 0.00 0.93 0.00 0.00 0.00