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 VMTN Doc 9279: Interpreting ESXTOP Statistics

wjpatton — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:35:43 +0000

I keep meaning to post a link to this document that Zpan created. It has great deal of information about how to gather performance statistics with ESXTOP batch mode and then use tools such as Windows PERFMON to review them and how to interpret what you are seeing.

Great document to keep handy, personally I use the Physical Disk counters often and refer to this document when doing so.

Read the document here.

*Update* 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. Sorry, I forgot to update this post for so long, I will be sure to create a new post just for this great new tool.

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Interpreting ESXTOP files with ESXPlot

VMware VMTN Doc 9279: Interpreting ESXTOP Statistics