Hi All,
I recently deployed a VDP appliance to replace VDR in our 5.1 enviroment, backing up through a FC EMC CX3-40f SATA array.
As soon as I setup the appliance (which was a nightmare due to the DNS error message!), CPU usage shot up to 2-3Ghz and stayed this way throughout the day. Bear in mind this was with no backup job configured, and there was little disk IO during this period.
I logged in to the appliance using SSH, and using top, found that the Java processes are taking up most of the CPU - along with intermittant bursts from "gsan".
I then setup and kicked off a backup of our enviroment after hours, and saw that the CPU usage shot up to 10GHz - I had to stop it to stop it affecting other VMs.
I understand that this product will require heavy resources due to the dedup, but is this really normal behaviour? It's maxing out an HP G7 blade at the moment!
I have tried combinations of 1 - 4 vCPU, upping the memory to 16Gb and updating Tools.
Anyone else seeing similar behaviour, or have any advice?
