Tom Howarth’s blog entry put me on to this new document from Scott Drummond explaining ESXTOP usage and definitions. Good find Tom – thank you! Thanks also to Scott Drummond for his creation! I prefer the PDF version of the document for my offline document library.
This is something we could have used a few years ago, however, its useful days may be numbered as I believe the direction of ESX is ultimately ESXi and a consoleless bare metal hypervisor.