Cisco Viptela vEdge LAB High CPU
I am currently deploying a Viptela vEdge 17.2.x series in my ESX lab however as soon as I fired up multiple vEdges I noticed CPU utilisation went through the roof. Server couldn’t handle 4-5 instances as each consumes around 8GHz. This was very familiar to me from virtual SRX experience due to continuous polling and fortunately Viptela has also a work-around. As soon as I set the following command CPU has reduced to ~200MHz. I also reduced vCPU count to #2, we will see if this will have any side effect though.
I am not exactly sure on which version this command was introduced because I can’t find it on 16.3.x release but it is available on 17.2.x
vedge10(config)# system eco-friendly-mode
vedge10(config)# commitAfter this, command probably you need to power cycle the VM and give it some time as the effect of the change isn’t so quick, then enjoy the new instances 🙂
