Free HyperV Performance Monitor Tool

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User Guide

Introduction

The ManageEngine HyperV Performance Monitor tool helps an administrator to monitor the Hypervisor present in Microsoft Windows 2008 R2.

This tool connects to the Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Server and generates easy to visualize desktop Dashboard reports. Administrator can monitor two such servers simultaneously.

Overview

The tool fetches the values of the following parameters from servers and populates them in the dashboard, after connecting to the Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Server.

• IpAddress/HostName
• Operating System Name
• System UpTime
• CPU Utilization
• Memory Utilization
• Disk Read Requests
• Disk Write Requests
• Number of Packets (Rx) received
• Number of Packets (Tx) sent

The number of running VMs of all the total VMs configured

It shows the following variables of each of the guest VM installed in that ESX host.

• Name of the Virtual machine
• Uptime of each VM
• Power Status of each VM
• CPU Utilization
• Memory Utilization
• Disk Read rate
• Disk Write rate
• Number of packets received
• Number of packets sent

Settings Dialog

Using this tool, administrator can monitor two Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 servers simultaneously. Click on the settings icon to fill the following details.

• Hostname/IP Address
• UserName
• Password

Click on the "Connect" button to connect to the server and close the settings windows.

Using this tool, administrator can also set threshold values for CPU usage, like critical and warning thresholds.

There are some common threshold parameters for both the hosts. They are as follows.

• CPU Warning Threshold Value ( Default is 60%)
• CPU Critical Threshold Value ( Default is 80%)

Data will be refreshed at an interval specified as the refresh interval ( 5mins by default). This interval has to be given in minutes. Based on the value provided each HyperV host will be polled via WMI and the details of that particular host and all the VMs installed in that host will be retrieved and updated in the GUI.

Refresh

To know the server's current status please use the Refresh icon. When the refresh icon is clicked the latest values of all the parameters are fetched and displayed in the GUI.

Retaining Settings

The following details are saved in the disk so that both the hosts parameters can be reused when the tool is restarted.

• HostName
• UserName
• Password [ Encrypted using Triple DES ] encryption standard.

The following values are not retained and have to be provided everytime the tool is restarted.

• CPU Warning threshold
• CPU Critical threshold
• Refresh Interval