![]() ![]() What if you are remotely accessing the ESXi server and are unable to log into the web interface of the ESXi host for one reason or another and you need to know what type of CPU the host is configured with? Let’s think about a couple of use cases for that. You might wonder, when would I ever want to query physical hardware information about an ESXi host when I can get a lot of information from the vSphere Client? Use Cases of ESXi Commandline Tools for Physical Hardware Info Let’s take a look at VMware ESXi commandline get CPU and Memory Information. Have you ever wanted to know the details about CPU, memory, or other physical hardware? From time to time it is very handy to be able to gather some of these details from the VMware ESXi command line. > could not find any.There are times with your virtual infrastructure running on top of VMware vSphere that you need to gather information about the physical servers you are running on. > helpful guides as to how to install it on vmware? I've searched google but > Is fio supported on vmware esxi 5 and 6 servers? Does anyone have any ESXi is not a general purpose OS, so it lacks some features. Not sure if the kernel supports the fork() or whatever call FIO uses to spawn the job processes. > I have tried a test before where I statically compiled FIO and copied it to an ESXi server, but I was never able to get any jobs to start. > Are you asking if FIO can be built or run on the hypervisor itself, like via ssh? > On Oct 10, 2018, at 2:05 PM, Beierl, Mark wrote: > From your response it looks like (compile or precompiled) neither works. > Yes, I was looking for documentation or guide on if fio can be compiled or installed on esxi servers. Chances are you are looking to something a little more advanced like profile vSAN or some other form of software defined storage? So you could load a VM with CentOS or something and have FIO profile the raw device, but that is probably not going to be useful. > I do know that ESXi can pass a full device (raw disk) to a VM and that VM takes full ownership of it. A statically linked one should work, but I really don’t know enough to be able to say why it could not start a job. > I doubt that FIO could be compiled on raw ESXi as there is no compiler available on that from what I can tell. > environments (but the general idea should be the same). > access to ESXi these days so I can't say what's needed for modern > I used to get it going for ESXi 6.0 but note that I no longer have > The last time it was asked about was over on Github (see > glibc are compiled with different options, libraries are missing etc). > doesn't match that of the regular distro (for example things like a > take a "regular" distro's fio because the ESXi environment simply ![]() > from an appropriate real distro but there are a few gotchas. > and as Mark suggested it IS doable by building a static fio binary > The question of how to compile fio for ESXi comes up every few years > Please report any suspicious attachments, links, or requests for sensitive information. > Dell EMC | Cloud & Communication Service Provider Solution > file1: Laying out IO file (1 file / 1024MiB) > You can now scp that fio to your ESXi server and execute it there. > Then, start the docker container with a dummy command (I’m sure there are better ways to do this, but it works, so hey) > RUN cd fio & EXTFLAGS="-static" make -j $(grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo) install > I have fio working on my ESXi 6.5 server. > Hey all, and special thanks to Sitsofe for pointing me at the github fio issue 464. May find you can nobble fio's configure script to allow its detectionĮven though you're using the -esx option. ![]() Isn't a prepackaged *static* libaio on CentOS/RHEL) but if it does you I don't know if alpine builds a static version of libaio (e.g. I'm not sure you need this as the next line isn't using https: > RUN git config -global http.sslVerify false Thank you for following up on this Mark - I'm sure others will find ![]()
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