How do you read Esxtop?
How do you read Esxtop?
Start esxtop by typing esxtop at the command line. Press d to switch to disk view (HBA mode). To view the entire Device name, press SHIFT + L and enter 36 in Change the name field size. Press f to modify the fields that are displayed.
How do I check disk IOPS in VMware?
A few options spring to mind with VMWare. From the CLI run esxtop and press d to switch to disk mode. The field CMD/s shows you current IOPS. From the vSphere GUI go the machine in question and then performance tab, you can switch that to disk or datastore mode and view current activity there.
How do I check disk consolidation status?
To monitor snapshot deletion/consolidation using the vim-cmd command:
- Open an SSH shell session to the host that is performing the consolidation and snapshot deletion task by running this command: vim-cmd vimsvc/task_list.
- Run this command in the SSH shell:
How do I check my LUN queue depth?
To identify the storage device queue depth:
- Run the esxtop command in the service console of the ESX host or the ESXi shell (Tech Support mode).
- Press u.
- Press f and select Queue Stats.
- The value listed under DQLEN is the queue depth of the storage device.
How do you sort Esxtop?
Press ‘R’ to sort by %RDY column. The percentage of time the vCPU world is in an idle loop. %IDLE is only available for vCPU worlds. Other worlds do not have idle loops, so %IDLE is 0.
How long should disk consolidation take?
You cannot work on your computer and defrag your computer at the same time. It is common for disk defragmenter to take a long time. The time can vary from 10 minutes to many hours, so run the Disk Defragmenter when you don’t need to use the computer!
How do I fix a disk consolidation problem?
As an alternative, try these steps to fix an error occurred while consolidating disks: Failed to lock the file.
- Shut down the virtual machine.
- Take a new VM disk snapshot.
- Delete all existing VM snapshots. Right click the VM name in vSphere Client, select Snapshots, and click Delete All Snapshots.
How do I use the esxtop tool on an ESX Server?
Using a secure shell (SSH), log on to the ESX Server machine as root. Enter esxtop in the SSH command line. The esxtop display appears. Note: The esxtop tool includes several interactive commands. To view a list of the interactive commands, enter h.
What are worlds and groups in esxtop?
Esxtop uses worlds and groups as the entities to show CPU usage. A world is an ESX Server VMkernel schedulable entity, similar to a process or thread in other operating systems. It can represent a virtual machine, a component of the VMkernel or the service console.
What is the difference between esxtop and resxtop?
The commands for esxtop and resxtop are basically the same so I will describe them as one. Monitoring with resxtop collects more data than monitoring with esxtop so CPU usage may be higher. This doesn’t mean this esxtop isn’t resource intensive, quite the opposite.
What metrics can be used with (R)esxtop?
Metrics such as %USED and %RUN show the CPU occupancy delta between successive snapshots. The manual for (r)esxtop is full of useful examples, and unlike normal commands run on ESXi it will work if you run it from the vMA in the same way that it does from ESX.
