vm-support and esxtop replay

[billdossett]

Hi,

I just tried playing with vm-support and esxtop replay today and all went to plan up until I tried to replay the data.

I did

vm-support -p -i 3 -d 60 -w .

on a datastore with loads of space.

It created my tgz file with i untared/unzipped

which in turn created my directory of all files

I then ran the ./reconstruct.sh

which went away and did it's thing as far as I can tell, it certainly took a while

I then did

esxtop -R .

and it says  sorry, I;m having to type rather than cut and paste this so I have paraphrased..

vsicache_init failed to open ./hungvm/vsi/vsi0

and no, there isn't a hungvm dir or any vsi.0 files in the directory structure of my untarred support bundle...  I googled and it seems this is the result of NOT running reconnstruct, but I did...  😞  any ideas on what I am doing wrong? This is vsphere 5.1

thanks

Bill

[zXi_Gamer]

Just to confirm, are you giving a command like this.. esxtop -d 10 -R <untar'd vmsupport directory>

[billdossett]

I am not putting the -d in ... just the -R command... As I have already put the interval in the vm-support command, I didn't think it would be needed here as you can't really change the interval once it is caputered.

Thanks

Bill

[billdossett]

and my cwd is the root of the untarred suppport files directory, hence I put -R . so it looks in my cwd.