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I have a set of experiments running on a cluster node which is running ESXi 5.1, and I want to monitor the resource consumption on the node itself. Specifically, I am currently running experiments on a subset of the VMs on the ESXi host and wish to monitor resource consumption on those specific VMs.

Right now, since I'm using only a single ESXi host, I am using vSphere to access it and the performance reports. Ideally, I would like to get these reports for different time intervals.

I can already get the charts for a time interval of 1h, but these are rather long-running experiments and something like 2h, 3h,... would be preferable. However, I cannot seem to change the time interval. Here is an example of what my Customize Performance Chart dialog shows:

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I am also running on a trial key at the moment.

How can I change this interval? Do I need a standard license, or do I just need to turn off the VM (unlikely, but I haven't attempted it yet as these are long-running experiments)?

Any help (or pointers to documentation which deals with the above -- I've already looked but did not find much) would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Did you click on Custom instead of Real-time? Commented Nov 7, 2013 at 20:28
  • Sorry, I switched the images I had intended to upload around. The edited picture is what my current vSphere client shows me (i.e., no custom entry). The previous picture was how it should look. I'm wondering whether this is because of it being in evaluation mode. Commented Nov 7, 2013 at 20:32
  • OK, that was what confused me...I'll post an answer. Commented Nov 7, 2013 at 20:37

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If you are using a single esxi host without vCenter and connect directly to the host, you'll only see real-time performance. You need vCenter in order to see historical data.

However, there is a workaround. If you get Veeam One (free) you can see historical data that you are after (for the most part...there are some limitations compared to the paid version).

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  • Since this answered my original question, I'm accepting it as an answer. Thank you for mentioning Veeam One, I'll be taking a look at it as soon as I can. Commented Nov 7, 2013 at 21:15

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