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David Mackintosh
Asked: 2012-06-14 06:19:20 +0800 CST

How do I collect metrics on the VMs running in my Hyper-V cluster?

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I have a Hyper-V cluster on two physical machines. I have a small pile of VMs running on that cluster of varying operating systems. I am trying to collect operating metrics for the VMs so that we can have some visibility into what is happening in there.

The things I am interested in are things like disk IO and CPU usage. Ideally I would be able to monitor things like memory usage and swapping, CPU states (IO-wait verses working) and the like.

Traditionally I have installed SNMP clients on the VMs and monitored each VM as if it was a physical computer. However I have been reading that one shouldn't monitor VMs directly, one should try to do it through the hypervisor host instead.

Is there a better way to collect running metrics from my VMs on this cluster?

hyper-v performance-monitoring

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  1. Best Answer

    There is some excellent information about monitoring Hyper-V located here:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tvoellm/archive/2009/04/23/monitoring-hyper-v-performance.aspx

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