Performance chart displays -0.01 in the CPU Usage metric

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

Performance chart displays -0.01 in the CPU Usage metric.

Environment

ESXi
ESX

Cause

This behavior can occur as a side effect of the "sched-stats --reset" command.
If sched-stats --reset was being run periodically for debugging purposes, the CPU usage performance chart may appear unnatural, as shown below.

Resolution

This is an expected side effect of the "sched-stats --reset" command. The metric value of -0.01 can be safely ignored.