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chriskchung
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ESX monitoring

Is there a way to determine which resource (i.e. disk, cpu, memory) is the most constrained resource?

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Dave_Mishchenko
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You can use the performance tab in the VI client to start to get an idea of which resource is heavily used.

Here's a guide for using esxtop with a console/ssh session. When you start esxtop you can press c, d and m to switch between the CPU, disk and memory views.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx2_using_esxtop.pdf

There's also a number of performance tuning links here which include a number of presentations from VMWorld 2006.

http://www.vmware-land.com/Vmware_Links.html#Performance

tsugliani
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

I would place the small unnoc appliance to have a nice overview of your architecture, it's quite simple to set up.

You can check this here:

http://unnoc.org/

Hope it helps