Role and Permission in VC for User to collect ESXTOP Stats

[vmhyperv]

Hi Everyone,

     We have a testing and development team  who wants to do test in their testing and staging server while doing this they want real time stats for cpu,mem and Disk.But this not the production issue so we dont want to sit with them and collect report for real time stats.Now they want temp user to be created with root previlege so that they can collect ESXTOP report by running ESXTOP command.So what previlege  shall we give and which  group the temp user will be added so that they can only run and collect  esxtop report.But they multiple vms spead accross the diffrent cluster and in different esxi host.Any help will be much appreciated on this.

thanks

vmguy

[weinstein5]

esxtop is a command that is run directly against the ESXi host and not thorugh vCenter - you would have to provide access toe the host either the command shell or through the vMA - The user can pull similar statistics from the vSphere clients performance graphs -

[Realitysoft]

Here is a link to some good info...also depends what you are trying to identify there will be a lot of info and specific settings required..

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/esxtop/

[vmhyperv]

Hi,

Do i need to give temp user shell/root access for this pupose ?Will Normal access will be fine for them ?

thanks

[MagnetBoy · Accepted solution]

I would modify a role to give them access to  "Report Performance".

With this they are going to be able to get Host and/or VM performance data in :

• Real Time
  
• Day(s)
  
• Week(s)
  
• Month(s)
  

for CPU, Datastore, disk, memory, network, virtual disks, etc.

[vmhyperv]

Hi,

Thasks for the reponse.Its seems good.Can you elaborate in brief the steps  for this. Thanks!!

thanks

vmguy