Question : Host CPU % vs top Load

What is the difference between CPU utilization and top numbers.

Had some issues this weekend doing a storage migration from one of my more capable hosts.  The CPU utilization as at 7% but it took  four hours to move about 150GB VM.  and almost another four hours to clone it.   My experience in the past was about an hour and a half for each.   I call VMware support and the number they pointed me to was the "top" numbers in the CLI.  That was running at around 2.5 while my other boxes were running not more (Less capable hosts) than .6.  

The host that was running at 2.5 load has four, six core processors with 132GB of RAM.  is the load what I should be looking at for utilization.  

I am assuming that I should have picked another host run my storage migration on .

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100706-CPU-Usage.JPG (18 KB) (File Type Details) 

CPU utilization of all four hosts in the cluster

100706-CPU-ESX7-top.JPG (81 KB) (File Type Details) 

top number for my most cabaple host

100706-CPU-ESX6-top.JPG (89 KB) (File Type Details) 

This is my number two host

Answer : Host CPU % vs top Load

Do you expect one or more records back ?

var test = from o in myTable.AsEnumerable()
                     where o.Field<string>("C1") == "Test1"
                     && o.Field<string>("C2") == "Test2"
                     select o.Field<double>("Test3");

foreach (var Result in test )
            Console.WriteLine("Result: " + Result.ToString());