Interpreting ESXTOP files with ESXPlot

wjpatton — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:14:32 +0000

Scott Drummonds of vPivot.com posted on ESXPlot, a great tool that is far more efficient and less aggravating than Perfmon for working with ESXTOP output files.

Geoff White has created a badly needed tool here, Perfmon worked but was very time consuming. Especially with those days or weeks of ESXTOP statistic files.

Extract and use the README. For Windows, extract all files, navigate to the esxplot.exe in the Bin directory and you are off and running!

Geoff White now has a full project site with all information and releases. Click here

Labs.vmware.com has now gone live and hosting ESXPlot as well. Click here

VMware ESXTOP Learning Lessons: VMToday

wjpatton — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:05:35 +0000

Joshua Townsend of VMToday just posted an article about ESXTOP and Windows Perfmon that included some of the lessons he learned when working with these tools. I found it interesting as I had just posted some information on ESXTOP and how to use it with Perfmon. You can find my document post here.

I absolutely agree with him that ESXTOP -a is useless with Perfmon, the output is very hard to work with and messy. But I spent some time in the past building a few common counter lists that I use for performance troubleshooting. Mostly, I find myself using the Physical Disk Latency counters most. We use a Fiber Channel SAN so these counters are very useful for both myself and our SAN Administrators.

Read Joshua Townsend’s lessons here.

VMware ESXTOP Learning Lessons: VMToday

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Interpreting ESXTOP files with ESXPlot

VMware ESXTOP Learning Lessons: VMToday