VMware performance charts and esxtop are common monitoring tools in VMware vSphere. You can display performance charts in either the VMware ESXi host or VMware vCenter Server. Performance charts can provide a lot of useful information for analysis of performance problems, for example, CPU and memory utilization, disk I/O, network bandwidth, and so on. VMware performance charts can display two types of charts: overview charts and advanced charts. The overview performance shows the host performance statistics.
Here is a screenshot of an overview performance chart on VMware vCenter Server:
The following procedure describes how to view an overview performance chart on VMware vCenter Server using the vSphere Client:
Log in to vCenter Server using the vSphere Client.
Choose the Performance tab at the top, and then select Overview.
You can view these overview performance charts by selecting Time Range.
Advanced performance charts can display graphical statistical...