Appendix B. Statistics of esxtop

Overview of esxtop's interactive commands

There are many different interactive commands that can be run while executing esxtop to help you troubleshoot and identify issues. We can use the following guide to aide us in our esxtop usage.

Activating different displays

esxtop provides us with eight different displays that we can switch to in order to troubleshoot different ESXi components by pressing their corresponding character.

Component

Character

Description

CPU

c

Displays information regarding CPU resource usage

Interrupt

i

Displays information regarding CPU interrupt on VMkernel devices

Memory

m

Displays information regarding memory resource usage

Power management

p

Displays information regarding power ...

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