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How to Cheat at Configuring VmWare ESX Server
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How to Cheat at Configuring VmWare ESX Server

by David Rule
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
392 pages
7h 15m
English
Syngress
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Chapter 6. An Introduction to ESX Native Tools and How to Use Them

Introduction

This chapter is going to review the tools that come native to all ESX servers. It is important that, one, you understand these tools exist, and, two, you know how to use them from the command line and how you can incorporate them into scripts. VMware provides some very powerful tools that are built on native Linux functionality and that are expanded for use within the ESX host and the virtual machines residing on them.

Esxtop

Esxtop is a very simple yet powerful tool which can be used for diagnosing performance ...

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ISBN: 9781597491945