Why the VMs powered off still consume CPU and memory resource?

[levinpeng]

I placed the VMs in a resource pool. Some VMs still have CPU and memory resource consumation even when all VMs are powered off.

The resource pool still show Memory Usage is more than 0.

How can I reclaim the resource?

[levinpeng]

My vCenter version is 2.5.0 build 147633

[AntonVZhbankov]

Don't worry, powered off VMs consume only disk space.

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[levinpeng]

Do you mean the statisics collected by vCenter are incorrect?

Is there any way to fix it?

[AntonVZhbankov]

Just don't pay attention to it. Or if it really annoys you then submit support request to VMware.

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[SBC350]

Hi,

Did you hit "F5" to refresh your list ?

If not, you can try to restart the services on your ESX host that was hosting those VMs.

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Alex

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[levinpeng]

I press F5 again and again, but the result is still the same. I can't reboot the ESX host right now, there are some vm running.

[weinstein5]

Which update level are you at - the early editions of VC 2.5 and the corresponding VI CLient did not update properly but be assured the VMs are not consuming resources - advice is make sure you are on the current update -

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[levinpeng]

Here is the information.