How do I use the new resxtop NFS/Power functionality from 4.0 U2 with vMA?

[cskowmh]

Hi guys,

We've made the migration to using ESXi in our vSphere environment, and use the vMA to do some of the day to day management of the environment. Now that U2 is out, we're interested in accessing the new NFS/Power metrics functionality of esxtop, however the currently version of the vCLI that comes with VMA doesn't have access to those metrics. So far the only way to see it is to console in and running esxtop, which I don't view as friendly enough.

Since we're not going to turn on SSH on our ESXi hosts, we're looking for something we can run through the vMA. I ran a quick vima-update scan on the appliance and nothing pops up, which makes sense since I've only seen security RPMs trickle down through it thus far. So do I just try to dig up a new version of the vCLI and layer it on or is there a more elegant approach?

Thanks for the input!

[cskowmh]

Maybe I could just grab the binary from a standard ESX console and copy that into /usr/lib/vmware-vcli/bin/resxtop in vMA as a bandaid? I don't have any standard ESX boxes

[lamw · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The current version of vMA 4.0 is based on the GA release of vCLI 4.0, there has not been a refreshed in vMA bits for Update1 which had few minor vCLI fixes or the latest Update2 which includes enhanced resxtop, VMware does not do a good job of keeping these things up to date. However, you just need to download the latest version of vCLI 4.0 Update 2 install it on vMA, that'll provide you with the latest version. Hopefully VMware does a better job of providing these via vima-update as that is a great method of keeping the virtual appliance up to date w/o having to re-deploy.

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[lamw]

It's not recommended to just copy binaries around, there maybe libraries that it utilizes. The best way is just to install the latest version of vCLI 4.0 Update2

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[cskowmh]

Thanks William, I just layered in the new vCLI. While it complains a little on a shared object, resxtop works fine with the new "u" and "y" screens!

[lamw]

np.

I think it complains because they already exists from when the vCLI is first installed, as you've found, you can just ignore that.

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