Monitoring Windows

CPU - Average CPU Usage alarm The CPU - Average CPU Usage alarm is active when the average CPU utilization of the server exceeds a threshold. This value is taken over a specific number of background collections. Sustained high CPU utilization can adversely effect the performance of SQL Server and anything else using this server. CPU - Individual CPU Usage alarm The Windows CPU - Individual CPU Usage alarm is activated when the average CPU utilization of a single processor exceeds a threshold.

Virtualization Overhead In a virtual environment the physical CPU of a host is shared by virtual machines and the hypervisor. Multiple processes may want to use the physical CPU of the host at the same time. The virtual machines may have to wait to be scheduled on a CPU. Gauge Show the percentage of CPU that is unavailable to this virtual machine because it is being consumed either by other virtual machines or by VMware itself.