When thinking about monitoring, you have to consider not just the Hyper-V host but
all of the other resources that are required for the host to run and be accessible and
for the virtual machines to be able to function. At a minimum, you need to monitor
the following:
The Hyper-V host operating system (including the Hyper-V role-specific
intelligence)
Server hardware
Storage subsystems (such as SANs)
Networking equipment
Active Directory
SCVMM and its SQL databaseIt’s also a good idea to monitor the OS within the virtual machines to get the best
insight.
Many monitoring solutions are available. System Center includes System Center
Operations Manager, which is a powerful monitoring solution, not just for Microsoft
environments, but also for the entire infrastructure. Operations Manager has
management packs, which are imported and give insight into each element of the
environment. Figure 6.14 is an example view from Operations Manager of the health
status of a virtual machine. Operations Manager also has a great dashboard view of
actual clouds that you define within SCVMM.
Figure 6.14 Operations Manager view of virtual machines