March 2019
Beginner
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The esxtop command is available at the hypervisor level, so you need to connect to your ESXi hypervisor over Secure Shell (SSH) first, before you can issue the command.
Once you are logged-in, all you need to do is issue the esxtop command from the command line, as shown in the following screenshot:

The windows are automatically refreshed every 5 seconds so you can see what exactly is going on.
ESXTOP has a number of different views you can switch to:
To switch to the different view, hit h to see what views are available ...
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