From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 03: Monitoring Tools

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Demo: Use ESXTOP to monitor ESXi 6.7

Demo: Use ESXTOP to monitor ESXi 6.7

- [Rick] In this video I'll demonstrate how to use ESXTOP to monitor an ESXi hosts. So, in this video I'm again using the hands-on lab environment at hol.vmware.comm. And you can see here this particular lab is equipped with PuTTY. And so we've got PuTTY here available to us and we can launch PuTTY and we can connect to our ESXi hosts. So, let me go ahead and close this and start this over. Here's PuTTY down here at the bottom of the screen. I'm just going to click it. And what I'm trying to do is get command line access to an individual ESXi host. That's what ESXTOP is all about. I'm going to get into one particular ESXi host and I'm going to use ESXTOP to monitor that host. So, I'm going to load up this session here and I'm actually going to make a quick change before I get in there. I'm just going to increase the size of my font to make it a little bit easier for everybody to see. And then I'll go ahead and connect…

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