copperegg RevealCloud

copperegg RevealCloud cloud monitor gives you detailed, real-time performance monitoring of cloud services so you see everything that is happening, as it happens. From understanding system usage at every moment in time to uncovering and resolving issues if they arise, RevealCloud is designed to optimize cloud performance and ensure superior service levels are maintained by the provider.

XEN vm hwclock issues

It seems there are some issues with xen hwclock and centos and ubuntu xen vms !

You may find that installing
# yum install system-config-date
and using timeconfig instead might help

VMware Server and top !

Have you ever wondered which VM is which when looking at top

top - 11:58:00 up 56 days,  1:08,  1 user,  load average: 0.57, 0.59, 0.96
Tasks:  88 total,   2 running,  86 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.8%us, 12.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 86.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1553968k total,  1517840k used,    36128k free,     4500k buffers
Swap:  2040244k total,   107652k used,  1932592k free,  1282832k cachedPID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

12387 user       5 -10  793m 533m 479m S  1.4 35.1  83:56.98 vmware-vmx
12310 user  5 -10  743m 510m 497m S  8.9 33.7 277:42.39 vmware-vmx
3368 user       5 -10  447m 182m 168m S  2.1 12.0   3214:21 vmware-vmx
2537 root      15   0 19040 4728 1572 S  0.0  0.3  95:12.36 vmware-serverd

well just make your xterm screen wider run “top” and press “c”

top - 11:58:10 up 56 days,  1:09,  1 user,  load average: 0.56, 0.59, 0.96
Tasks:  88 total,   1 running,  87 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.2%us, 12.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 86.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.1%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1553968k total,  1517964k used,    36004k free,     4516k buffers
Swap:  2040244k total,   107652k used,  1932592k free,  1282888k cached

PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
12387 user       5 -10  793m 533m 479m S  1.4 35.1  83:57.12 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /vmfs/w2k8/w2k8.vmx -@ ""
12310 user       5 -10  743m 510m 497m S  8.3 33.7 277:43.21 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /vmfs/rhyth/rhyth.vmx -@ ""
3368 user       5 -10  447m 182m 168m S  3.2 12.0   3214:21 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /vmfs/redmine-0.5/JumpBox.vmx
2537 root      15   0 19040 4728 1572 S  0.3  0.3  95:12.39 /usr/sbin/vmware-serverd -s -d