Comments on: The Skinny on ESXTOP http://vmtoday.com/2009/09/the-skinny-on-esxtop/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-skinny-on-esxtop VMware News, Views, & How-To's from vExpert Josh Townsend Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:56:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Duane Smithhttp://vmtoday.com/2009/09/the-skinny-on-esxtop/comment-page-1/#comment-2678 Duane Smith Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:07:23 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=244#comment-2678 Great info! Great website!Does anyone have the final word on making batch mode use the config file? I have not been able to limit the output in batch mode and I have not seen any posts that specifically answer that question. Great info! Great website!

Does anyone have the final word on making batch mode use the config file? I have not been able to limit the output in batch mode and I have not seen any posts that specifically answer that question.

]]> By: Joshua Townsendhttp://vmtoday.com/2009/09/the-skinny-on-esxtop/comment-page-1/#comment-710 Joshua Townsend Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:38:04 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=244#comment-710 Great work, Sebastian. Thanks for sharing! Great work, Sebastian. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Sebastian Kayserhttp://vmtoday.com/2009/09/the-skinny-on-esxtop/comment-page-1/#comment-709 Sebastian Kayser Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:13:59 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=244#comment-709 Josh, this is wonderful, thanks for the great (detailled) article! Regarding the selection of the relevant columns, I've used the following Perl one-liner to first deselect _all_ columns and then manually selected the few ones which I was interested in via esxtop.perl -pi -e '$_ = lc if /^[[:alpha:]]/' .esxtop4rc-batchBriefly tested on ESX4. When there are only a few columns of interest this is considerably faster (and of course much more fun ;) than manual deselection.Sebastian Josh, this is wonderful, thanks for the great (detailled) article! Regarding the selection of the relevant columns, I’ve used the following Perl one-liner to first deselect _all_ columns and then manually selected the few ones which I was interested in via esxtop.

perl -pi -e ‘$_ = lc if /^[[:alpha:]]/’ .esxtop4rc-batch

Briefly tested on ESX4. When there are only a few columns of interest this is considerably faster (and of course much more fun ;) than manual deselection.

Sebastian

]]> By: lloydhttp://vmtoday.com/2009/09/the-skinny-on-esxtop/comment-page-1/#comment-182 lloyd Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:16:28 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=244#comment-182 Unable to get esxtop -batch mode to use either default template /root/.esxtop310rc or custom template. after deselect all atributes except disk A I J and then using W to default template. the following resulted in 12758 columns. Then tried creating custom template, same result.esxtop -b -d 15 -n 5760 -c /var/opt/esxtop/.customrc > var/opt/esxtop/srv01.csvHas anyone really got ESX 3.5 U4 to run esxtop in batch mode and limit the # of columns?? I don't believe its possible. Unable to get esxtop -batch mode to use either default template /root/.esxtop310rc or custom template.
after deselect all atributes except disk A I J and then using W to default template. the following resulted in 12758 columns.
Then tried creating custom template, same result.

esxtop -b -d 15 -n 5760 -c /var/opt/esxtop/.customrc > var/opt/esxtop/srv01.csv

Has anyone really got ESX 3.5 U4 to run esxtop in batch mode and limit the # of columns?? I don’t believe its possible.

]]> By: Geoff Whitehttp://vmtoday.com/2009/09/the-skinny-on-esxtop/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Geoff White Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:24:44 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=244#comment-181 Try this program in Beta for reading esxtop batch mode data, it can read the very larrg CSV files, plot data that is gathered, you can even use regex queries to prune out the metrics that you want and export them to a new CSV file that is small enough to load into Excel or PERFMON, (or reload it back into esxplot)http://vpivot.com/2009/10/21/esxtop-analysis-with-esxplot/ Try this program in Beta for reading esxtop batch mode data, it can read the very larrg CSV files, plot data that is gathered, you can even use regex queries to prune out the metrics that you want and export them to a new CSV file that is small enough to load into Excel or PERFMON, (or reload it back into esxplot)

http://vpivot.com/2009/10/21/esxtop-analysis-with-esxplot/

]]> By: Mark Linhttp://vmtoday.com/2009/09/the-skinny-on-esxtop/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Mark Lin Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:31:01 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=244#comment-82 Dear Josh:Thank you very much for taking your time to answer my question. It is very detailed and well-explained :) I really appreciate your work and I am going to work on these methods now, thanks alot :)Best,Mark Lin Dear Josh:

Thank you very much for taking your time to answer my question. It is very detailed and well-explained :) I really appreciate your work and I am going to work on these methods now, thanks alot :)

Best,

Mark Lin

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