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VMware ESXi Administration Guide

Hypervisor checks

Hypervisor checks

  • Add the ESXi host to vCenter and assign license as appropriate
  • Check the CPUs support virtualisation

[root@esxi-tiger-14-7:~] esxcli hardware cpu global get CPU Packages: 2 CPU Cores: 36 CPU Threads: 36 Hyperthreading Active: false Hyperthreading Supported: true Hyperthreading Enabled: true HV Support: 3

As per this article, this ensures that CPU virtualization is correctly enabled.

Hypervisor checks

  • Add the ESXi host to vCenter and assign license as appropriate
  • Check the CPUs support virtualisation

[root@esxi-tiger-14-7:~] esxcli hardware cpu global get CPU Packages: 2 CPU Cores: 36 CPU Threads: 36 Hyperthreading Active: false Hyperthreading Supported: true Hyperthreading Enabled: true HV Support: 3

As per this article, this ensures that CPU virtualization is correctly enabled.