VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 8.x) – how to create a CPU spike with a bash command

First making a SSH connection

root@RA-VMWARE8-01:~] cat /dev/urandom | md5sum

and an additional SSH connection

root@RA-VMWARE8-01:~] esxtop
10:59:59am up 23 min, 609 worlds, 1 VMs, 2 vCPUs; CPU load average: 0.11, 0.04, 0.06
PCPU USED(%): 3.3 103 7.0 2.0 NUMA: 28 AVG: 28
PCPU UTIL(%): 3.4 100 7.3 2.1 NUMA: 28 AVG: 28
ID GID NAME NWLD %USED %RUN %SYS %WAIT %VMWAIT %RDY %I
20274 20274 cat.264999 1 99.28 99.92 0.00 0.00 – 0.02 0
20256 20256 esxtop.264996 1 4.53 4.48 0.00 95.46 – 0.00 0
20283 20283 md5sum.265000 1 2.95 2.99 0.00 96.69 – 0.26 0
18312 18312 VA-W2k22s-01d 10 2.36 2.34 0.05 996.79 0.12 0.30 197

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