VCSA High CPU utilization

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

Observing spikes in VCSA CPU utilization and the issue is intermittent in VCSA 7.x.

 

Cause

When you run vimtop command on VCSA and monitor the status of CPU performance, VCDB is consuming more CPU and query processing is slow.

Resolution

Issue is resolved in 8.x version request to upgrade the VCSA from 7.x to 8.x.