The following procedure will help you run esxtop and switch between different modes:

Connect to the console of the ESXi host through SSH or a remote console
Once you are at the CLI of the host, type esxtop and hit Enter to bring up the default interactive mode output

The following table will provide you with a basic list of keys to switch between the various statistics modes the tools can be in:

Key	Statistics mode
`c`	CPU statistics
`i`	Interrupt vector information
`m`	Memory statistics
`n`	Network statistics
`d`	Disk/storage metrics
`u`	Storage device-specific metrics
`v`	VM-specific storage information
`p`	Power management configuration and utilization information
`x`	VSAN-specific metric information

The previous table is a list is the primary metrics of each of the component, which can then further have categorizations. The list of interactive commands can be displayed by keying-in h , as depicted in the following screenshot:

Furthermore, for each component, there could be fields added or removed based on requirements. For instance, the CPU statistics view can be modified to included power stats. This will prove to be particularly helpful if the power management settings of the hardware may be affecting the performance of the workloads. In the following screenshot, we explicitly include the power stats to be displayed: