Distributed Firewall CPU usage very high Alarm
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Distributed Firewall CPU usage very high Alarm

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Article ID: 330426

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Products

VMware vDefend Firewall

Issue/Introduction

Title: Alarm for distributed_firewall.dfw_cpu_usage_very_high
Event ID: distributed_firewall.dfw_cpu_usage_very_high

Alarm Description

  • Purpose: Distributed Firewall kernel CPU usage is very high.
  • Impact: In this case, we can expect performance degradation in distributed firewall datapath.

Environment

VMware NSX-T Data Center

Resolution

Steps to Resolve

For 3.0.0 and higher

Recommendations:

Consider re-balancing the VM workloads on this host to other hosts.

Maintenance window required for remediation? No

 

Additional Information