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Revision as of 18:29, 23 June 2017

External

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Generic Virtualization Concepts

Virtualization Concepts

RedHat Virtualization

libvirt

Storage and Virtualization

Networking and Virtualization

Steal Time

"Steal time" is the percentage of time a virtual CPU waits for real CPU while the hypervisor is servicing another virtual processor.

A high value means the physical CPU is overcommitted and more physical CPU should be allocated to the environment - or the VM should be moved on a different physical server. The steal time is reported by vmstat st.