As virtualization does help us to consolidate virtual machines into physical servers, we are always looking into a better consolidation ratio and hardware utilization. We may not want to achieve this by hitting to performance issue on the virtual infrastructure. Here is 1 of the way you may consider to improve the utilization on your ESX host.

As my environment, the virtual infrastructure are supporting our global business in Asia Pacific, EMEA and NA time zone. When I tracked back the performance history and found the busy hour for most of the machines will be different. Due to the time zone different, I notice that the hardware utilization on the ESX host are always remain 40 to 50 % all the time.

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