Microsoft Hyper-V

Introduction

Microsoft Hyper-V, an important part of the enterprise IT infrastructure environment is a hypervisor-based virtualization solution. Integrating Hyper-V to OpsRamp allows you to:

• View and monitor infrastructure resources managed by Hyper-V hosts.
• Manage bottlenecks and optimize performance.
• Improve system performance.
• Track and observe resources to ensure zero downtime.
• Eliminate overall system performance degradation and SLAs.

You can use local or domain users while authenticating the target Hyper-V host and get the monitoring updates.

Prerequisites

• On the gateway resource:

  • Enable WinRM services.
  • Allow WinRM service through the firewall.
  • Enable PowerShell remoting using the command: Enable-PSRemoting -Force.
  • Set PowerShell environment variable on the gateway resource.

If the target device is not in the same domain, add the target device domain to the trusted hosts (The device is discovered in an IP range).

• On the target resource:

  • Enable WinRM service.
  • Allow WinRM service through the firewall.
  • Enable PowerShell remoting using the command: Enable-PSRemoting -Force.

• Windows gateway version 9.0 or later.

• Port(5985) is in Open state.

Supported metrics

Create credentials

1. Go to Setup > Accounts > Clients.

2. Click a Client Name.

3. From the client Credentials tab, click + Add and enter the following details:

   • Name: Enter a name for the credentials.
   • Description: Enter a brief description of the purpose of the credentials.
   • Type: Select Windows credential type.
   • Domain Name: Enter the domain details according to the credential type.
   • Username and password: Enter credentials to access Hyper-V.

4. Click Save.
   The Credentials tab displays the credential details.

Configure and install the integration

1. From All Clients, select a client.
2. Navigate to Setup > Account.
3. Select the Integrations and Apps tab.
4. The Installed Integrations page, where all the installed applications are displayed. If there are no installed applications, it will navigate to the Available Integrations and Apps page.
5. Click + ADD on the Installed Integrations page. The Available Integrations and Apps page displays all the available applications along with the newly created application with the version.
   Note: Search for the application using the search option available. Alternatively, use the All Categories option to search.

6. Click ADD in the Microsoft Hyper-V application.
7. In the Configuration page, enter the below information:

8. From the FILTER CRITERIA section, select:

   • SMART: To filter resources based on the resource type. Select one of the following:
     • All Resources
     • Hyper-V Host (Default selection and cannot be changed)
     • Virtual Machines
   • RESOURCE: To filter resources based on certain resource attributes.
     • Select matching criteria to match Any or All rules.
     • Filter for resources using the following attributes: resource type, attribute name, logical operator, and value.
     • Use regular expressions to filter resources using logical operator Regex.

9. In the FILTER BY RESOURCE TYPE section, select:

   • ALL: All the existing and future resources will be discovered.
   • SELECT: You can select one or multiple resources to be discovered.

10. From the Perform Actions section, choose Manage Device to set the resources as managed.

11. In the DISCOVERY SCHEDULE section, select recurrence pattern to add one of the following patterns:

    • Minutes
    • Hourly
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly

12. (Optional) Under the ADVANCED SETTINGS, Select the Bypass Resource Reconciliation option, if you wish to bypass resource reconciliation when encountering the same resources discovered by multiple applications.

    Note: If two different applications provide identical discovery attributes, two separate resources will be generated with those respective attributes from the individual discoveries.

13. Click NEXT.

14. (Optional) Click +ADD to create a new collector by providing a name or use the pre-populated name.

15. Select an existing registered profile, and click FINISH.

The application is now installed and displayed on the INSTALLED INTEGRATIONS page. Use the search field to find the installed application.

16. (Optional), Select the Microsoft Hyper-V Integration.
17. (Optional), Click the ellipses and choose the View resources option.

View the Hyper-V Infrastructure details

The Microsoft Hyper-V integration is displayed in the Infrastructure > Resources > Microsoft Hyper-V. You can navigate to the Attributes tab to view the discovery details, and the Metrics tab to view the metric details for Microsoft Hyper-V.

Assign the monitoring template

To assign monitoring templates to Hyper-V, see Assigning Templates. Monitoring Hyper-V provides the following details:

• Hypervisor CPU Usage: Tracks if the CPUs are running at full capacity or underutilized.
• Hyper-V System Services: Monitors the availability and status of critical Hyper-V services such as Hyper-V Image management service, Virtual Machine Management, and Networking management service.
• Memory Usage: Notifies when the memory usage is high or critically low.
• Networking and Virtual Network Statistics: Monitors the health and status of the network interfaces, virtual network adapters, legacy virtual network adapters, and virtual switch.
• Storage and Virtual Storage Metrics: Metrics to track the saturated drives.
• Hyper-V Performance Monitoring: Monitors the overall performance of Hyper-V servers over some time and analyzes possible trends to ensure high up-time.

For more information on Hyper-V templates, see Hyper-V.

View resource metrics

To confirm the monitoring of Hyper-V resource, review the following:

• The graph is plotted for each metric that is enabled in the configuration.
• Alerts are generated for metrics that are configured as per defined integration.

Constraints

• The resource type of hyper-v host changes to “server” on the Infrastructure listing page while installing agent on Hyper-V host. As an alternative, use remote monitoring capabilities to monitor the system performance.
• For discovered virtual machines, you can collect the additional metrics through agent or gateway-based remote monitoring.