vSphere vs Hyper-V showdown - CPU details

The following set of charts show some metrics from both platforms that I collected using athene to use on an ongoing basis for my capacity management.

Hyper-V is dark blue and vSphere light blue, shown side by side.

 

CPU metrics

Some metrics that are worth monitoring, how much time the virtual CPU is waiting for a ‘slice’ of the physical CPU:

 

·        vSphere VM ready time

·        Hyper-V Guest run time 

 

CPU Details - vSphere CPU Ready Time

 

All 4 machines were running and I chose to view them as a stacked chart.

 

 

You can see from the graph how it ‘spiked’ however the reality is that this is being viewed by percentage, so they weren’t actually waiting for too long.

 

CPU Details - Hyper-V Guest Run Time

 

This is a single metric guest run time.

 

 

One interesting feature is that this spiked up over 100% on two occasions.

 

On Wednesday I’ve selected three memory metrics for each platform and we’ll be taking a look at those.

 

Dale Feiste

Consultant