6.5.1
Table Of Contents
- vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Contents
- About vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Monitoring Inventory Objects with Performance Charts
- Performance Chart Types
- Data Counters
- Metric Groups in vSphere
- Data Collection Intervals
- Data Collection Levels
- View Performance Charts
- Performance Charts Options Available Under the View Menu
- Overview Performance Charts
- Clusters
- Data centers
- Datastores and Datastore Clusters
- Disk Space (Data Counters)
- Disk Space (File Types)
- Disk Space (Datastores)
- Disk Space (Virtual Machines)
- Storage I/O Control Normalized Latency
- Storage I/O Control Aggregate IOPs
- Storage I/O Control Activity
- Average Device Latency per Host
- Maximum Queue Depth per Host
- Read IOPs per Host
- Write IOPs Per Host
- Average Read Latency per Virtual Machine Disk
- Average Write Latency per Virtual Machine Disk
- Read IOPs per Virtual Machine Disk
- Write IOPs Per Virtual Machine Disk
- Virtual Machine Observed Latency per Datastore
- Hosts
- Resource Pools
- vApps
- Virtual Machines
- CPU (%)
- CPU Usage (MHz)
- Disk (Average)
- Disk (Rate)
- Disk (Number)
- Virtual Disk Requests (Number)
- Virtual Disk Rate (KBps)
- Memory (Usage)
- Memory (Balloon)
- Memory (Swap Rate)
- Memory (Data Counters)
- Network (Usage)
- Network (Rate)
- Network (Packets)
- Disk Space (Data Counters)
- Disk Space (Datastores)
- Disk Space (File Types)
- Fault Tolerance Performance Counters
- Working with Advanced and Custom Charts
- Troubleshoot and Enhance Performance
- Monitoring Guest Operating System Performance
- Monitoring Host Health Status
- Monitoring Events, Alarms, and Automated Actions
- View Events
- View System Logs
- Export Events Data
- Streaming Events to a Remote Syslog Server
- Retention of Events in the vCenter Server Database
- View Triggered Alarms and Alarm Definitions
- Live Refresh of Recent Tasks and Alarms
- Set an Alarm
- Acknowledge Triggered Alarms
- Reset Triggered Event Alarms
- Preconfigured vSphere Alarms
- Monitoring Solutions with the vCenter Solutions Manager
- Monitoring the Health of Services and Nodes
- Performance Monitoring Utilities: resxtop and esxtop
- Using the vimtop Plug-In to Monitor the Resource Use of Services
- Monitoring Networked Devices with SNMP and vSphere
- Using SNMP Traps with vCenter Server
- Configure SNMP for ESXi
- SNMP Diagnostics
- Monitor Guest Operating Systems with SNMP
- VMware MIB Files
- SNMPv2 Diagnostic Counters
- System Log Files
- View System Log Entries
- View System Logs on an ESXi Host
- System Logs
- Export System Log Files
- ESXi Log Files
- Upload Logs Package to a VMware Service Request
- Configure Syslog on ESXi Hosts
- Configuring Logging Levels for the Guest Operating System
- Collecting Log Files
- Viewing Log Files with the Log Browser
- Enable the Log Browser Plug-In on the vCenter Server Appliance
- Enable the Log Browser Plug-In on a vCenter Server Instance That Runs on Windows
- Retrieve Logs
- Search Log Files
- Filter Log Files
- Create Advanced Log Filters
- Adjust Log Times
- Export Logs from the Log Browser
- Compare Log Files
- Manage Logs Using the Log Browser
- Browse Log Files from Different Objects
- Index
Using the resxtop Utility
The resxtop utility is a vSphere CLI command.
Before you can use any vSphere CLI commands, you must either download and install a vSphere CLI
package or deploy the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) to your ESXi host or vCenter Server system.
After it is set up, start resxtop from the command line. For remote connections, you can connect to a host
either directly or through vCenter Server.
The command-line options listed in the following table are the same as for esxtop (except for the R option)
with additional connection options.
N resxtop does not use all the options shared by other vSphere CLI commands.
Table 7‑1. resxtop Command-Line Options
Option Description
[server]
Name of the remote host to connect to (required). If connecting directly to the
ESXi host, use the name of that host. If your connection to the ESXi host is indirect
(that is, through vCenter Server), use the name of the vCenter Server system for
this option.
[vihost]
If you connect indirectly (through vCenter Server), this option should contain the
name of the ESXi host you connect to. If you connect directly to the host, this
option is not used. Note that the host name needs to be the same as what appears
in the vSphere Web Client.
[portnumber]
Port number to connect to on the remote server. The default port is 443, and
unless this is changed on the server, this option is not needed.
[username]
User name to be authenticated when connecting to the remote host. The remote
server prompts you for a password.
You can also use resxtop on a local ESXi host by omiing the server option on the command line. The
command defaults to localhost.
Using esxtop or resxtop in Interactive Mode
By default, resxtop and esxtop run in interactive mode. Interactive mode displays statistics in dierent
panels.
A help menu is available for each panel.
Interactive Mode Command-Line Options
You can use various command-line options with esxtop and resxtop in interactive mode.
Table 7‑2. Interactive Mode Command-Line Options
Option Description
h Prints help for resxtop (or esxtop) command-line options.
v Prints resxtop (or esxtop) version number.
s Calls resxtop (or esxtop) in secure mode. In secure mode, the -d command, which species
delay between updates, is disabled.
d
Species the delay between updates. The default is ve seconds. The minimum is two
seconds. Change this with the interactive command s. If you specify a delay of less than two
seconds, the delay is set to two seconds.
n Number of iterations. Updates the display n times and exits. Default value is 10000.
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