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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)
- Space Allocated by Datastore in GB
- Space Capacity by Datastore in GB
- 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 vSphere Health
- 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 in the vSphere Web Client
- Set an Alarm in the vSphere Client
- 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
The ninth line contains information on the other options. Most important, if you saved a configuration in
secure mode, you do not get an insecure esxtop without removing the s from the seventh line of
your .esxtop50rc file. A number specifies the delay time between updates. As in interactive mode,
typing c, m, d, u, v, n, I, or p determines the panel with which esxtop starts.
Note Do not edit the .esxtop50rc file. Instead, select the fields and the order in a running esxtop
process, make changes, and save this file using the W interactive command.
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.
Note resxtop is supported only on Linux.
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.
To launch resxtop and connect to a remote server, enter this command
resxtop --server <hostname> --username <user>
The command-line options listed in the following table are the same as for esxtop (except for the R
option) with additional connection options.
Note resxtop does not use all the options shared by other vSphere CLI commands.
Table 8‑1. 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 omitting the server option on the command line. The
command defaults to localhost.
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