Tag: vsphere-os ESXtop

introduction
in this article we will continue to use ESXtop to monitor storage in interactive mode  
ESXtop to monitor storage HBA
Using the storage portion of ESXTOP, you can get  very valuable information when troubleshooting storage performance Start esxtop by typing esxtop at the command line. Press d to switch to disk view (HBA mode). To vieRead More…

introduction
in this article we ill discuss how to use ESXtop interactive Mode to monitor Network 
monitor network in interactive mode
Once in the esxtop screen press ‘n’ to display network statistics. For network you can look at the %DRPTX and %DRPRX columns. These represent the dropped packets transmitted and dropped packets received respectively. Values above 0 herRead More…

introduction
this article we will discuss how to monitor Memory in interactive Mode 
ESXtop interactive Mode to monitor memory​
Once in the esxtop screen press ‘m’ to display memory statistics. At the top of the screen you will see PMEB /MB. These values are in MB and list the total memory of the host (total) memory used by the ESXi VMKernel (VMK) other memory in use (other) and fRead More…

introduction
welcome to continue our ESXtop series as part of course  vSphere optimization & scale  in previous article we have got an overview about ESXtop utility and how to configure parameters  then we have seen how to use batch mode to capture data and how to analyze it with windows tool perfmon  this article will discuss how to monitory CPU in  interactive modRead More…

introduction Virtual machine (VM) and ESXi host performance analysis is one of the key abilities for any VMware administrator. in previous article we have got an overview about ESXtop and discuss how to configure ESXtop parameters this article we will discuss how to capture ESXI and VM performance with batch mode then how to analyze these data select required fields First of all . Make suRead More…

introduction
in previous article we have got an overview about ESXtop utility  this article we will see how to change default ESXtop configuration before see how to use this utility to monitor performance 
run ESXtop
the best method  is to run esxtop with SSH using putty For Better View > Open Image in different TAB
also we can run esxtop command from directRead More…

Introduction
Welcome to the  first article of ESXtop tool series In first article we will get  an introduction to  performance  tool ESXTop , before see how to use it to  monitor all vSphere resources  [ CPU, RAM , Network , Storage ….etc ] Then we will discuss to use visual ESXtop
What is ESXtop
Esxtop is a command-line tool that gives administrators reRead More…