Hi,
My question is about the command esxtop in batch mode, I run this command:
esxtop -b -a -d 2 -n 1440 | gzip -9c > esxtopoutput.csv.gz
or this one:
esxtop -b -a -d 2 -n 100 > esxtopoutput.csv
I can see the csv file growing but at the end, the file is empty (0ko) or I get this message from gzip: short write, the csv.gz file is empty or the file is impossible to extract (corrupted because too big?)
Is anyone has ever seen that problem?
Did you check to see if you are running out of diskspace on the datastore you're on?
Yes, I checked the free space and it is okay.
Something weird when I look to the file size during the data collect is that sometime, the size falls to 0 Ko and after, it continues to grow up.
I looked to the security and it's okay because I ran esxtop with the root account.
Currently having this same problem. Your post was the only one I could find describing this issue. Never had this problem before, it was working, then stopped. However none of my CSV files could be viewed in VisualEsxtop. I even tried removing the .esxtoprc files I was working with. Disk space not an issue as well. Would be interested if a solution was found, as I'm clueless at the moment.
Even I am facing the same problem. Have you found any solution to it ?
it turns out to be storage issue, I changed the path of storage and it worked fine.