Microsoft Hyper-V Server Monitoring

• Hyper-V - An Overview
• User Permissions
• Firewall Requirements
• Supported Versions
• Creating a new Hyper-V Monitor
• Monitored Parameters

Hyper-V - An Overview

Microsoft Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization solution for x86-64 systems and an important player in the booming server virtualization space; a critical part of a working IT environment, it needs to be tracked and observed constantly to ensure zero downtime. A Hyper-V monitor helps in monitoring your Microsoft Hyper-V servers and their guest virtual machines, and ensures they are performing well at all times.

Applications Manager monitors the critical components of the Hyper-V server to detect any performance problems. The components includes processor, CPU, memory, disk, hardware, virtual & physical network, virtual storage, etc.

User Permissions

To monitor a Hyper-V host, the user must have ‘Administrator’ privileges to the root OS (Windows 2008 R2 and other supported Hyper-V versions).

Firewall Requirements

If a firewall is present between Applications Manager and the Hyper-V server, open ports 135 and 445 in the firewall to enable access.

Supported Versions

Versions: Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter, Hyper-V Server 2012, Hyper-V Server 2016, and Hyper-V Server 2019.

Creating a new Hyper-V monitor

Prerequisites for monitoring Microsoft Hyper-V Server metrics:Click here

Using the REST API to add a new Microsoft Hyper-V Server monitor:Click here

Follow the steps given below to create a new Microsoft Hyper-V Server monitor:

1. Click the New Monitor drop-down link menu.
2. Select Hyper-V Server under Virtualization category. This action will load the Add Monitor screen.
3. Specify the Display Name of the Hyper-V server.
4. Enter the Host Name or IP Address of the host where the Hyper-V server is running.
5. Enter the credential details like user name and password for authentication, or select the required credentials from the Credential Manager list by enabling the Select from Credential list option.
6. Select the Monitor Performance Metrics of Virtual Machines option if you want Applications Manager to collect performance metrics of VMs of this server.
7. Select the Version of your Microsoft Hyper-V Server from the drop-down menu (2008, 2012, 2016 or 2019).
8. Select the VM Discovery option based on which the virtual machines should be discovered and monitored. The available options are Do not discover, Discover VM but do not monitor metrics, and Discover and Monitor VM metrics.

   For Discover VM but do not monitor metrics and Discover and Monitor VM metrics options, you can also specify the Discovery Filter Regex based on which the virtual machines are to be discovered and monitored. Learn more

9. Select the Enable Kerberos Authentication checkbox if you want to monitor Hyper-V server through Kerberos authentication.
10. Specify the Discovery Interval in minutes for the automatic discovery and monitoring of child monitors.
11. Specify the Polling Interval in minutes.
12. If you are adding a new monitor from an Central Server, select a Probe Server.
13. Select the Monitor Group with which you want to associate the Hyper-V server, from the combo box (optional). You can choose multiple groups to associate your monitor.
14. Click Add Monitor(s). This discovers the Hyper-V server from the network and starts monitoring it.

Monitored Parameters

• Availability tab shows the Availability history of the Hyper-V server for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
• Performance tab shows some key performance indicators of the Hyper-V server such as Total CPU Utilization, Guest CPU Utilization, Hypervisor CPU Utilization and Physical Memory Utilization along with heat charts for these attributes. This tab also shows the health status and events for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
• List view lists all the Hyper-V servers monitored by Applications Manager along with their overall availability and health status. You can also perform bulk admin configurations from this view. Click on the individual servers listed to view detailed performance metrics.
• Top Hyper-V servers tab shows graphs for the top total CPU utilization consumers, top guest CPU utilization consumers, top memory consumers and top idle CPU utilization consumers.

To view detailed performance metrics of a Hyper-V server, click the corresponding monitor listed in the Availability or List view tab. These metrics are categorized into six tabs for easy understanding.

• Overview
• CPU
• Memory
• Network
• Storage
• Virtual Storage
• Virtual Network
• Hardware
• Configuration

Note: Applications Manager also supports Hyper-V cluster monitoring and is mapped under Settings → Performance Polling → Optimize Data Collection → Hyper-V.

Overview

This tab provides a high-level overview of the availability and performance of the Hyper-V server.

CPU

This tab provides CPU utilization statistics of the Hyper-V server.

Memory

This tab provides memory usage statistics of the Hyper-V server.

Network

This tab provides metrics about the overall networking performance of the Hyper-V server.

Storage

This tab displays metrics pertaining to the overall disk performance of the Hyper-V system.

Virtual Storage

This tab provides information about the virtual storage devices of the Hyper-V server.

Virtual Network

This tab shows detailed virtual network stats of the Hyper-V server.

Hardware

This tab provides hardware details of the Hyper-V server.

Configuration

This tab provides configuration details of the Hyper-V server.

You can enable, disable or delete virtual storage devices / VMs / network adapters / disk from Applications Manager itself. Just select the required item from the corresponding tab, and choose the appropriate action from the Action list box. You can also compare reports between any two metrics by using the Compare Reports option.