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Table A-9. Storage Adapter Panel Interactive Commands

Command

Description

e

Toggles whether storage adapter statistics are displayed expanded or unexpanded. Allows viewing

storage resource utilization statistics broken down by individual channels belonging to an expanded

storage adapter. You are prompted for the adapter name.

P

Toggles whether storage adapter statistics are displayed expanded or unexpanded. Allows viewing

storage resource utilization statistics broken down by paths belonging to an expanded storage adapter.

Does not roll up to adapter statistics. You are prompted for the adapter name.

a

Toggles whether storage channel statistics are displayed expanded or unexpanded. Allows viewing

storage resource utilization statistics broken down by individual targets belonging to an expanded

storage channel. You are prompted for the adapter name and the channel ID. The channel adapter

needs to be expanded before the channel itself can be expanded.

t

Toggles whether storage target statistics are displayed in expanded or unexpanded mode. Allows

viewing storage resource utilization statistics broken down by individual paths belonging to an

expanded storage target. You are prompted for the adapter name, the channel ID, and the target ID.

The target channel and adapter must be expanded before the target itself can be expanded.

r

Sorts by READS/s column.

w

Sorts by WRITES/s column.

R

Sorts by MBREAD/s read column.

T

Sorts by MBWRTN/s written column.

N

Sorts first by ADAPTR column, then by CID column within each ADAPTR, then by TID column within

each CID, then by LID column within each TID, and finally by WID column within each LID. This is

the default sort order.

Storage Device Panel

The storage device panel displays server-wide storage utilization statistics.
By default, the information is grouped per storage device. You can also group the statistics per path, per world,

or per partition.

Table A-10. Storage Device Panel Statistics

Column

Description

DEVICE

Name of the storage device.

PATH

Path name. This name is visible only if the corresponding device is expanded to paths. See the

interactive command p below.

WORLD

World ID. This ID is visible only if the corresponding device is expanded to worlds. See the interactive

command e below. The world statistics are per world per device.

PARTITION

Partition ID. This ID is visible only if the corresponding device is expanded to partitions. See interactive

command t below.

NPH

Number of paths.

NWD

Number of worlds.

NPN

Number of partitions.

SHARES

Number of shares. This statistic is applicable only to worlds.

BLKSZ

Block size in bytes.

NUMBLKS

Number of blocks of the device.

DQLEN

Storage device queue depth. This is the maximum number of ESX/ESXi VMkernel active commands

that the device is configured to support.

Appendix A Performance Monitoring Utilities: resxtop and esxtop

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