Are you able to login to the pfsense vm and see what is using the cpu?

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> On Sep 30, 2014, at 8:37 AM, Rizul khanna <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jason,
> 
> Nopes, I checked mulitple times and all I can say is that as soon as I 
> connect the pfSense machine's NIC with my public-cum-mgmt port group on the 
> dvSwitch, CPU of any of the host(s) in the cluster shoots to 60-70% from the 
> normal 4-5%. I have very consolidation ratio as of now, only 2-6 VMs per 
> host. As soon the NIC is disconnected, the CPU consumption drops vertically 
> and it is fairly visible and noticable.
> 
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> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> Rizul Khanna
> 
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> 
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Jason Whitt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Have you looked at your provisioning of all the vm's on that host? Any cpu 
>> over-provisioning issues, contention, etc.
>> 
>> Are there any ip conflicts or clans that aren't applied?
>> 
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>> 
>>> On Sep 30, 2014, at 1:59 AM, Rizul khanna <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> We are trying to use pfsense with dvswitch in our virtual environment, 
>>> where we wish to filter traffic to our VMs directly from pfsense. Our VMs 
>>> are windows based terminal servers and we want to restrict IPs/ Ports 
>>> accessible on them.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Our Mgmt and VM N/W portgroup is the same in the dvportgroup and whenever 
>>> while configuring the pfsense machine I connect the pfsense machine’s NIC 
>>> to the mgmt-public dvportgroup, the CPU utilization of any of the ESXi 
>>> hosts/ all the hosts increases from 5%-60% unexpectedly. We use ESXi 5.5 U1 
>>> with single socket Intel Xeon 2690 10 x 2.99 GHz processors on all our ESXi 
>>> hosts in the cluster. We have to implement the firewall in the Virtual 
>>> Environment, but unable to do so, please suggest something.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I can be contacted on [email protected] and [email protected]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>> 
>>> Rizul Khanna
>>> 
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>>> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rizul-khanna/39/81/a3b  | 
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