The total number of CPUs is the total amount of virtual ones that are
allocated to the LPAR.
So worst case, each of your 8 LPARS can have up to 8 virtual CPUs (4CPUs
times 2 for the SMT), meaning a total number of 64 virtual CPUs can be
allocated.
Ofcourse, this doesn't make sense at all!  


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Onderwerp: [Ganglia-general] ganglia and IBM power virtualisation

We have ganglia on IBM p55 (2x2 CPU) installed (8 lpars, aix5.3). In
ganglia this machine is defined as  ganglia cluster, lpars are nodes.
We use power awere gmond's (3.0.7) and gmetad (3.0.7) is installed one
of lpars.

It works well, but I have doubts about its usefulness on lpars,
especially in CPU monitoring.

Metrics like  cpu_[user|wait|system|idle] and graph "CPU last our" are
wrong both in shared and dedicated environment.
I can understand why it's wrong in shared CPU. But I don't know why is
that with dedicated CPU ?
I can see different values with ganglia and nmon.

I.e:
LPAR1 : 2 dedicated CPU, usage around 30% of (2) CPU for 2 hours
(topas).

Ganglia (CPU last hour) shows : 15 %
nmon (physical avg) : 25 %      - which is true I think .


1. Why is that ?
2. "CPU total" shows 32 . I think it shows 8 (lpar) x 4, but this is not
the real number of CPU. Can I change it ?
3. Which metrics do you monitor in shared CPU environment ? Which are
reliable ?

regards

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