VMWare vSphere 6.7 ESXTOP Output Garbled
If your VMWare vSphere 6.x environment command output of esxtop looks like a bunch of garbled gibberish (it’s actually CSV format), then you need to change the terminal declaration to xterm but don’t ask me why it’s configured like this in the first place.
The fix for this problem is:
TERM=xterm esxtop
Remember that Linux is case-sensitive and therefore this needs to be entered as TERM=xterm and not term=xterm
This is what you and everyone else should see:
[root@esxi67:/] TERM=xterm esxtop
3:18:40am up 3:09, 647 worlds, 10 VMs, 12 vCPUs; CPU load average: 0.08, 0.10, 0.14
PCPU USED(%): 7.5 4.6 3.1 7.0 AVG: 5.5
PCPU UTIL(%): 8.8 6.2 4.3 8.0 AVG: 6.8
ID GID NAME NWLD %USED %RUN %SYS %WAIT %VMWAIT %RDY %IDLE %OVRLP %CSTP %MLMTD %SWPWT
12079 12079 win2016-3.ad.sy 13 6.20 6.42 0.02 1293.89 0.12 0.46 193.43 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.00
13663 13663 vcsa67 23 3.71 4.64 0.03 2296.11 0.00 0.60 195.38 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00
23167 23167 win2016core-1 9 3.23 3.35 0.01 896.85 0.00 0.26 96.67 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
38248 38248 esxtop.2104304 1 2.80 2.83 0.00 97.21 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
17287 17287 docker3.ad.sysi 9 1.17 1.91 0.02 897.71 0.00 0.46 97.96 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
19711 19711 nginx03.ad.sysi 9 0.93 1.20 0.01 898.48 0.00 0.33 99.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
6248 6248 hostd.2098564 31 0.84 0.85 0.00 3100.00 - 0.09 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
14863 14863 docker1.ad.sysi 11 0.83 0.96 0.01 1099.56 0.00 0.12 99.88 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
35816 35816 win2019core-1 9 0.68 0.89 0.01 898.97 0.08 0.14 98.94 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
1 1 system 171 0.43 375.29 0.00 16699.59 - 27.41 0.00 0.45 0.00 0.00 0.00
31904 31904 docker4.ad.sysi 9 0.41 0.63 0.01 899.65 0.00 0.25 99.77 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
16087 16087 docker2.ad.sysi 9 0.36 0.60 0.01 899.72 0.00 0.22 100.63 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
37008 37008 dc1.ad.sysinfo. 9 0.25 0.41 0.01 899.47 0.08 0.17 99.41 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
9342 9342 vpxa.2098997 36 0.07 0.08 0.00 3600.00 - 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
9527 9527 lwsmd.2099050 13 0.05 0.12 0.00 1297.48 - 3.12 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
6397 6397 rhttpproxy.2098 22 0.02 0.02 0.00 2200.00 - 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
1106 1106 vmsyslogd.20974 3 0.01 0.01 0.00 300.00 - 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
28248 28248 sshd.2102770 1 0.01 0.01 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
8 8 helper 155 0.01 0.01 0.00 15500.00 - 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
5913 5913 hostdCgiServer. 12 0.01 0.01 0.00 1200.00 - 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
2192 2192 net-lacp.209770 3 0.01 0.02 0.00 299.98 - 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
6534 6534 sdrsInjector.20 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
3902 3902 ntpd.2098250 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
4334 4334 vmware-usbarbit 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
10 10 drivers 12 0.00 0.00 0.00 1200.00 - 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
8550 8550 dcbd.2098889 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
4735 4735 ioFilterVPServe 2 0.00 0.00 0.00 200.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
5015 5015 swapobjd.209839 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
1234 1234 vobd.2097477 20 0.00 0.00 0.00 2000.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
6670 6670 storageRM.20986 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
11 11 ft 4 0.00 0.00 0.00 400.00 - 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
12 12 vmotion 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
601 601 init.2097404 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
1098 1098 vmsyslogd.20974 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
1170 1170 sh.2097469 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
1290 1290 sh.2097505 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
1346 1346 vmkeventd.20975 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
1590 1590 vmkdevmgr.20975 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
2128 2128 sh.2097692 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
2629 2629 busybox.2098052 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
2811 2811 busybox.2098097 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
3838 3838 sh.2098242 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
4270 4270 sh.2098298 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
21047 21047 sshd.2100926 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
4671 4671 sh.2098350 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
21071 21071 sh.2100929 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
4951 4951 sh.2098386 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
5849 5849 sh.2098506 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
6172 6172 sh.2098554 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
6333 6333 sh.2098574 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
6470 6470 sh.2098613 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
6606 6606 sh.2098631 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
7262 7262 sh.2098714 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
7326 7326 net-lbt.2098722 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
8422 8422 slpd.2098873 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
8486 8486 sh.2098881 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
