Hyper-V Monitoring.

BoomAM · 2 Dec 2010 at 13:54

Hi.
Can someone recommend me some good tools that'll clearly show me why a certain VM is slow at times?
I basically need to see if its getting starved of memory, CPU time, disk bandwidth, I/O, etc;
The built in windows resource monitor is pants, and all this faffing is a prime reason why I prefer vSphere! lol.

Preferably free too btw...

Thanks in advance all.

paradigm · 2 Dec 2010 at 14:28

The best way is SCOM (System Center Operations Manger) tied in with SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager) which can do detailed logging and reporting of VM state, usage, resources, etc.

It's roughly comparable to the cost of vSphere, but you can try both for free (SCOM for 180-days, SCVMM for 1-year) as trial software.

matthab · 2 Dec 2010 at 14:29

http://www.paessler.com/monitor_hyper_v - GOOGLE

BoomAM · 2 Dec 2010 at 14:51

SCOM would require a complete server installation to do what i need it to do, not to mention a lot of time to configure, so its completely overkill for what i need.

And PRTG doesnt monitor VMs. Only hosts or VMs. Not VMs running on hosts.

Any other suggestions?

Deathwish · 2 Dec 2010 at 16:04

Nothing else around. It's either the built-in perfmon or SCOM.

Xez · 2 Dec 2010 at 20:03

BoomAM said:
SCOM would require a complete server installation to do what i need it to do, not to mention a lot of time to configure, so its completely overkill for what i need.

And PRTG doesnt monitor VMs. Only hosts or VMs. Not VMs running on hosts.

Any other suggestions?

Can confirm it does, we have it monitoring several hyper-v's

BoomAM · 3 Dec 2010 at 09:30

Xez said:
Can confirm it does, we have it monitoring several hyper-v's

Well unless your running a different version to what i am, im confident in saying it does. It does nack all. It can be setup to see specific VMs on a host, but as for seeing its Mb/sec read/write rate and queue lengths, next to useless, it only displays pages per second. Which is of no use.