title: VMware ESX Host Systems: CPU Utilization
agents: vsphere
catalog: os/kernel
license: GPLv2
distribution: check_mk
description:
 This check measures the CPU utilization of an VMware ESX Host System.
 It also shows you the number of sockets, cores and threads.

discovery:
 One service is created for each ESX Host System.

cluster:
 This check measures the averaged CPU utilization for a cluster of ESX Host systems.
 You can configure multiple WARN/CRIT levels depending on the number of nodes in this cluster.
