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Microsoft Hyper-V Server Monitoring


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. Available options are Do not discover, Discover VM but do not monitor metrics, and Discover and Monitor VM metrics.
  9. Select the Enable Kerberos Authentication checkbox if you want to monitor Hyper-V server through Kerberos authentication.
  10. Specify the Polling Interval in minutes.
  11. If you are adding a new monitor from an Admin Server, select a Managed Server.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.

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.

Parameter Description
Monitor Information
Name The name of the Microsoft Hyper-V server monitor.
Type Denotes the type you are monitoring.
Health Denotes the health (Clear, Warning, Critical) status of the Hyper-V server.
Partitions The total number of partitions in the Hyper-V server. Each virtual machine on the Hyper-V Server runs on a container called a partition.
Number of VMs The number of virtual machines configured in this Hyper-V server (Partitions - 1)
Last Polled at Specifies the time at which the last poll was performed.
Next Poll at Specifies the time at which the next poll is scheduled.
Today's Availability Shows the overall availability status of the server for the day. You can also view 7/30 reports and the current availability status of the server.
Hypervisor CPU Usage Details
Total CPU Utilization The sum of Guest CPU utilization and Hypervisor CPU utilization.
Guest CPU Utilization The percentage of CPU used by guest VMs.
Hypervisor CPU Utilization The percentage of CPU used by the hypervisor.
Idle CPU Utilization The percentage of CPU when the processor is in an idle state.
Processor Details
Logical Processors The total number of logical processors present in the Hyper-V server. These are the number of cores / HT that the hypervisor is managing.
Virtual Processors The total number of virtual processors present in the Hyper-V server. All execution in the root and child partitions (where guest VMs run) happens on Virtual Processors.
Physical Processors The total number of physical processors present in the Hyper-V server.
Memory Details
Total Physical Memory The total amount of physical memory utilized by the Hyper-V system.
Total Swap Memory The total swap space or the virtual memory utilized by the Hyper-V system.
Total Remote Physical Pages The total number of physical pages not allocated from the preferred NUMA node.
Total Physical Pages Allocated The total number of guest pages and VID pages needed to manage the VM.
HyperV System Services
Service Name The name of the system services of Hyper-V. The services available include Hyper-V Image Management Service, Hyper-V Networking Management Service and Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management.
Service Status The current status of the service
Virtual Machines
Virtual Machine The name of the virtual machine.
VM State Specifies the current state of the VM such as Running, Paused, Suspended, etc.
CPU Utilization The percentage of CPU used by this VM
Total Memory The amount of memory used by this VM
Health Denotes the overall health status of the VM

CPU

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

Parameter Description
CPU Details
Core Name Name of the CPU Core.
User Time Time taken by the CPU to execute user-mode operations (in percentage).
System Time Time taken by the CPU to execute kernel-mode operations (in percentage).
I/O Wait Time The amount of time the CPU is waiting for I/O requests to complete (in percentage).
Idle Time The amount of time the CPU is in idle state (in percentage).
CPU Utilization Amount of CPU utilized in this core (in percentage).
Interrupts/sec The rate at which CPU handles interrupts from applications or hardware each second.

Memory

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

Parameter Description
Memory Usage Details
Swap Memory Utilization The total swap memory or virtual memory used by the system (in percentage).
Swap Memory Used The swap memory used by the system in mega bytes.
Physical Memory Utilization The amount of physical memory used by the system (in percentage).
Physical Memory Used The amount of physical memory used by the system (in mega bytes).
Free Physical Memory The amount of free physical memory, in megabytes, immediately available for allocation to a process or for system use.
Page Details
Deposited Pages The total number of deposited pages used by the root partition.
Virtual TLB Pages The total number of pages used by the virtual TLB of the root partition.
Total Remote Physical Pages The number of physical pages not allocated from the preferred NUMA node.
Total Physical Pages Allocated The total number of guest pages and VID pages needed to manage the VM.
Pages Per Second The rate at which pages are read from or written to the disk to resolve hard page faults.

Network

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

Parameter Description
Network Traffic Stats
Network Adapter Name The name of the network adapter of the host.
Speed The rate at which data is transferred (in Mbps).
Input Traffic The amount of data received over the adapter (in Kbps).
Input Traffic Utilization The percentage of input utilization.
Output Traffic The amount of data sent over the adapter (in Kbps).
Output Traffic Utilization The percentage of output utilization.
Network Packet Stats
Offloaded Connections The number of TCP connections (over both IPv4 and IPv6) that are currently handled by the TCP chimney offload capable network adapter.
Outbound Packets Errors The number of outbound packets that could not be transmitted because of errors.
Outbound Packets Discarded The number of outbound packets that were chosen to be discarded even though no errors had been detected to prevent transmission. One possible reason for discarding packets could be to free up buffer space.
Packets Sent Per Second The rate at which packets are send on the network interface
Packets Received Per Second The rate at which packets are received on the network interface.

Storage

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

Parameter Description
Disk IO Details
Name The name of the storage device
Current Disk Queue Length The number of requests outstanding on the disk at the time the performance data is collected.
Disk Bytes Per Second The rate at which bytes are transferred to or from the disk during write or read operations.
Disk Transfers Per Second The rate of read and write operations on the disk.
Disk Partition Details
Free Space The total usable space on the selected disk drive that is free.
Used Space The total space on the disk currently in use.
Percent Used Space The percentage of total space on the disk currently in use.
Percent Free Space The percentage of total usable space on the selected disk drive that is free.

Virtual Storage

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

Parameter Description
Virtual Storage Stats
Name The name of the virtual storage device.
Error Count The total number of errors that have occured on this virtual storage device.
Flush Count The total number of flush operations that have occured on this virtual storage device.
Read Count The total number of read operations that have occured on this virtual storage device.
Write Count The total number of write operations that have occured on this virtual storage device.
Read Bytes Per Second The total number of bytes that have been read per second on this virtual storage device.
Write Bytes Per Second The total number of bytes that have been written per second on this virtual storage device.
Virtual IDE Controller Details
Name The name of the virtual IDE controller.
Read Bytes Per Second The number of bytes read per second from the disks attached to the IDE controller.
Read Sectors Per Second The number of sectors read per second from the disks attached to the IDE controller.
Write Bytes Per Second The number of bytes written per second to the disks attached to the IDE controller.
Written Sectors Per Second The number of sectors written per second to the disks attached to the IDE controller.

Virtual Network

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

Parameter Description
Virtual Network Adapter Details
Network Interface Name The name of the virtual network interface configured in the Hyper-V server.
Bytes/Sec The total number of bytes that have traversed the network adapter per second.
Packets/Sec The total number of bytes received per second by the network adapter.
Legacy Virtual Network Adapter Details
Legacy Network Interface Name The name of the legacy network interface configured in the Hyper-V.
Bytes Received Per Second The number of bytes received per second on the network adapter.
Bytes Sent Per Second The number of bytes sent per second over the network adapter.
Bytes Dropped The number of bytes dropped on the network adapter.
Virtual Switch Details
Switch Name The name of the virtual switch configured in the Hyper-V
Bytes Per Second The total number of bytes per second traversing the virtual switch.
Packets Per Second The total number of packets per second traversing the virtual switch.

Hardware

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

Parameter Description
Power
Name Name of the power source.
Voltage The voltage reading value of the power source (in mV).
Status The status of the power source.
Fan
Name Name of the fan.
Status Status of the fan.
Temperature
Name Name of the temperature sensor.
Status Status of the temperature sensor.
Processor
Processor Name Name of the processor.
Clock Speed The current clock speed of the processor (in MHz).
Voltage Amount of voltage utilized by the processor (in Volts).
Number of Cores The total number of cores present.
Number of Logical Processors The total number of logical processors present.
Status The status of the processor.
Socket Designation The socket designation of the processor.
Memory
Memory Device Name Name of the memory device slot.
Capacity The capacity of the memory device slot (in GB).
Speed The operational speed of the memory device slot (in MHz).
Disk
Disk Name Name of the physical hard disk.
Capacity The capacity of the hard disk (in GB).
Status The status of the hard disk.

Configuration

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

Parameter Description
Configuration Details
Host Name Name of the Hyper-V host.
Hardware Manufacturer The manufacturer name of the hardware used.
CPU Model The model name of the CPU.
CPU Capacity The overall CPU capacity (in MHz).
CPU Manufacturer The manufacturer name of the CPU used.
CPU Caption Denotes the family of the CPU used.

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.