HyperV Monitoring

Monitoring Hyper-V Host and VMs

OpManager Plus monitors Hyper-V servers via WMI. It provides separate dashboard for Hosts and VMs, to have a quick view on its performance. It also offers a dedicated Snapshot page for the Hyper-V host, which provides comprehensive data such as Health, Inventory, Performance Reports, etc.

Some highlights of monitoring Hyper-V servers with OpManager Plus:

  • Monitors effective utilization of critical resources like CPU, Memory, Network and Disk
  • Out-of-the-box offers 50 reports on Host and VMs
  • Automatically maps the migrated VMs to the corresponding Hosts

Apart from monitoring the Hosts and VMs, OpManager Plus also monitors the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of guest OSs. Similar to that of any Windows or Linux server, OpManager Plus monitors the applications, Windows & TCP services, processes running on the VMs using WMI/SNMP.

 

Discovering Hyper-V Servers in OpManager Plus

To discover the Hyper-V host and VMs, you just need to provide the IP address and WMI credentials of Hyper-V host. The VMs are automatically discovered along with the host.
Steps to discover the Hyper-V host and VMs:

Before proceeding to discover the host and VMs, ensure that you have configured the credentials for both the host and VMs in the credential library. To discover the host and VMs:

  1. Go to Admin-> Discovery-> Add Device.
  2. Enter the Host Name / IP Address.
  3. Enter the correct Netmask and select the appropriate credentials.
  4. Click OK button to add the host.

If  any of the VMs  are already discovered or added, OpManager Plus automatically maps them as Virtual Device.

Note: If the device has been added successfully, but not displayed under the 'Virtualization'. Search for that device. Upon finding the particular device, Go to its snapshot page and look for the device type. If it is mentioned as ‘unknown’, wrong credentials might have been provided or it is not reachable during discovery. Provide the correct credentials and click on ‘Rediscover Now’ present under three line menu at the top right corner in the snapshot page, to discover it as an Hyper-V host.
 

Configuring Thresholds for Hyper-V Host and VMs

OpManager Plus out-of-the-box offers monitoring templates for Hyper-V hosts and VMs. The templates help you configure thresholds for multiple hosts and VMs at one shot. The process is similar to that of configuring threshold to monitors available for Windows/Linux servers.

To configure the threshold value and apply the template

  1. Go to Admin-> Monitoring -> Device Templates.
  2. You can find the HyperV Server and HyperV Virtual Machine templates for the hosts and VMs respectively. Click on the required template.
  3. Click on Edit Thresholds button to configure the threshold and rearm value for the required monitors.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Click Associate for the devices to inherit the configurations in the template. While associating the template, click on Apply & Overwrite for the devices to remove the old and add the new configurations in the template.

Note: To edit the threshold values of a single host, go its snapshot page and click the Monitors tab under Inventory Details. Click on the Edit icon of a monitor to edit its threshold values.

 

Managing Hyper-V Alerts 

OpManager Plus monitors Hyper-V host and VM similar to that of any Windows server. Upon clicking the monitors tab in the host snapshot page, the monitors listed for a Windows server is listed here. You can add the required monitors and configure thresholds. If the threshold is violated, OpManager Plus raises an alarm.

Notifying Hyper-V Alerts

Notification profiles help you to notify when any alert is raised for virtual devices. The notification can be a sound alert / email alert/ running a script etc. You can associate any of the notification profiles that is already created for the Hyper-V host. 

 

 

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