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How to find top memory or CPU consuming process in linux?

There are many ways to find this but quick and widely used method will be using top or ps command. Find the top memory consuming process using top command top -o +%MEM | head -n 20 Similarly, if we have to find top CPU consuming process, command will be top -o +%CPU | head -n… by Rohit Bajaj December 22, 2022December 22, 2022

How to find which vmnic is VM connected to in ESXi?

Sometimes there is a need to find which physical NIC is VM connected to in ESXi server. Below i am listing two quick methods to find these. There may be other ways also. First method using esxtop. SSH into Esxi server. Then type “esxtop”. Then press ‘n’ to get networking view. In the third column… by Rohit Bajaj July 25, 2021July 25, 2021

How to calculate VM growth rate using vRealize?

Often times we need to calculate VM growth rate over a period of time.There are many ways to do this and couple ways to do it in vrealize itself. Below are the steps. Open up vRealize operations manager. First we will start by creating a new view.

How to replace SSL certificate on Horizon Connection server?

Below process only outline how to replace/change certificate on Horizon View Connection Server. For process of generating request for certificate, we can refer to this KB article. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2068666 RDP into connection server.

Why we started using Virtual volumes ?

With traditional virtual machines, a datastore is either a LUN (VMFS) or a volume (NFS). VMDK is sitting on top of other file system ( VMFS or NFS ). VVOLs can be considered as individual LUNs and VMDK are not sitting on any file system. Only file system is of guest operating system. There are… by Rohit Bajaj July 20, 2020July 20, 2020