VMware labs released new tool, graphical ESXTOP – awesome tool for people which don’t like to use command line tools. Tools runs on both Windows and Linux operating systems
Features:
- Live connection to ESX host or vCenter Server
- Flexible way of batch output
- Load batch output and replay them
- Multiple windows to display different data at the same time
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Instruction
- Download package
- make sure that Java is in the PATH
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visualEsxtop.sh
(linux) orvisualEsxtop.bat
- specify ESX(i) host or vCenter server and host, is possible to connect to ESX(i) through vCenter server
- When tool gets connected to esx server there are tabs CPU, MEMORY, NETWORK, Chart etc
- From right click menu is possible to specify metrics which you want to be displayed
- Nice feature is in first tab – chart,
- Problem is when you have to make graphs for particular virtual machine, there a only virtual worlds IS listed, so 🙂 use classic ESXTOP to identify virtual machine
Back site, tool generates quite big amount of log files so make sure you have enough space to run tool
root@laptop01:~/Downloads/visualEsxtop# ll total 54456 drwxrwxr-x 3 artur artur 4096 Jul 2 00:41 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 artur artur 4096 Jul 1 23:50 ../ drwxrwxr-x 2 artur artur 4096 May 28 02:56 lib/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 artur artur 1946 May 28 06:14 README -rwxrwxr-x 1 artur artur 262 May 28 02:56 visualEsxtop.bat* -rwxrwxr-x 1 artur artur 374 May 28 02:56 visualEsxtop-export-counter.bat* -rwxrwxr-x 1 artur artur 376 May 28 02:56 visualEsxtop-export-counter.sh* -rwxrwxr-x 1 artur artur 370 May 28 02:56 visualEsxtop-filter-stats.bat* -rwxrwxr-x 1 artur artur 372 May 28 02:56 visualEsxtop-filter-stats.sh* -rwxrwxr-x 1 artur artur 274 May 28 02:56 visualEsxtop.sh* -rw-rw-r-- 1 artur artur 3253331 Jul 2 00:42 vtop.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 artur artur 5242910 Jul 2 00:41 vtop.log.1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 artur artur 5242954 Jul 2 00:27 vtop.log.10 -rw-rw-r-- 1 artur artur 5242916 Jul 2 00:40 vtop.log.2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 artur artur 5242910 Jul 2 00:38 vtop.log.3 -rw-rw-r-- 1 artur artur 5242998 Jul 2 00:37 vtop.log.4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 artur artur 5242959 Jul 2 00:35 vtop.log.5 -rw-rw-r-- 1 artur artur 5242909 Jul 2 00:33 vtop.log.6 -rw-rw-r-- 1 artur artur 5242924 Jul 2 00:32 vtop.log.7 -rw-rw-r-- 1 artur artur 5242880 Jul 2 00:30 vtop.log.8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 artur artur 5242886 Jul 2 00:28 vtop.log.9 root@laptop01:~/Downloads/visualEsxtop#