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In this blog post, we’ll explore how to use resxtop to monitor your Azure VMware Solution (AVS) environment. We’ll cover the basics of getting started with resxtop and steps for installing it.
What Is resxtop?
Even if you’re familiar with esxtop, you may have never heard of resxtop. The “r“ stands for remote and is a remote version of the esxtop command, allowing users to monitor and manage VMware ESXi hosts from a remote system. This distinction helps users understand that resxtop can be run from a remote client rather than directly on the ESXi host itself.
resxtop does not use all the options shared by other ESXCLI commands.
Learn more at VMware’s “Using the resxtop Utility.”
Installing resxtop
resxtop can only be installed within a Linux OS. Ubuntu is one of my go-to distros for Linux so the following instructions are based on it, but you should also be able to use this for many other distributions. If you want to run this within Windows, you can use the Windows Subsystem
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