VCP-VVF Vmware Vsphere Foundation Fundamentals Practice Question
An administrator is troubleshooting a storage performance bottleneck in a vSphere cluster using esxtop. Which THREE esxtop metrics should the administrator analyze when investigating storage latency issues? (Choose three.)
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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DAVG (Device Average Latency)
DAVG, KAVG, and GAVG are the core storage latency metrics in esxtop (viewed in disk device mode).
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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DAVG (Device Average Latency)
Why this is correct
DAVG shows the latency at the physical storage array.
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GAVG (Guest Average Latency)
Why this is correct
GAVG represents the total storage latency experienced by the guest OS.
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%RDY (Ready Time percentage)
Why it's wrong here
%RDY is a CPU scheduling metric, not storage.
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KAVG (Kernel Average Latency)
Why this is correct
KAVG shows the queuing latency inside the ESXi kernel.
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SWCUR (Current Swap Space)
Why it's wrong here
SWCUR is a memory metric tracking swap usage.
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