Community based Management Pack for Hyper-V 2012 R2 to overcome the limitations of the standard ones. Importing this MP disables the VM monitoring delivered by the Microsoft authored Hyper-V Management Pack.
Some features of the MP:
- Comprehensive discovery with at least the same information you can get from the VMM integration, some properties discovered
- OS and platform
- Farm (very useful to create dashboards and groups)
- Hardware configuration
- Connected VHD(x)
- Connected NICs
- An optimized discovery that is triggered when VMs are moved, started or stopped
- A complete replica monitoring scenario with diagnostics, recoveries (disabled by default) and tasks to resume replica
- A couple of monitor related to GPUs and remoteFX inherited from the MS provided MP, disabled by default since I consider them not useful. But in any case I didn’t want to lose monitoring capabilities.
- Integration services obsolescence (only for Windows VMs since I don’t know how to update *nix VMs now that MS isn’t releasing anymore IS for platforms that have the services included in the kernel)
- VHD(x) fragmentation level monitoring, this one can be noisy, but if you have fragmented VHDs you better know it, since the performance impact can be significant
- VM uptime in % in the observation period (as you wish @Stas), this can useful to bill on uptime
- VM measures as performance counters for enabled virtual machines (Enable-VMMeasure)
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