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Microsoft Hyper-V Performance Monitoring |
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In-N-Out Monitoring and Root-Cause Diagnosis Technology
The eG VM Monitor extends the eG Enterprise monitoring technology for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments. Using a patent-pending In-N-Out Monitoring approach, the eG VM Monitor provides a comprehensive view of a Microsoft Hyper-V server, including the performance of the hypervisor, the root partition, and all its virtual machines (VMs). The monitoring can be done either in an agent-based or an agentless manner.
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The eG agent collecting metrics from the Hyper-V server host
and from within the VMs on the host. |
The agent-based model requires that an eG agent be installed on the root/parent partition of the Hyper-V server. Besides monitoring the health of the Hyper-V server host, this agent also embeds the intelligence to auto-discover VMs configured on the server, their power on/off state, and attributes such as resources allocated to the VM and the the IP address of the VM. Using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), the agents provide an 'outside view' of a guest VM's performance. The relative resource usage levels of the guest VMs show where the performance hogs exist.
To complement the outside view of a VM, the eG agent obtains an "inside view" that details the user activity, resource allocation, and the application mix running inside the VM operating system. The inside view is critical for problem diagnosis - while the outside view indicates which of the VMs running on a Hyper-V server are consuming a lot of the resources on the server, the inside view highlights which application(s) running in the VM operating system is responsible for the resource usage.
All the capabilities of agent-based monitoring are also available with the agentless monitoring option.
The eG VM Monitor automatically baselines all the metrics it collects. Time of day baselines determined for all the metrics indicate time of day norms for these metrics. Any deviations from the norm are flagged as proactive alerts. This way administrators are informed ahead of time about any deviations from the norm and can initiate remedial action before the problem becomes catastrophic. No other Hyper-V monitoring solution offers this combination of features.
Another key value proposition of the eG VM Monitor is its ability to manage virtual machines as not just independent entities, but as inter-related components that collaborate with physical infrastructure components to deliver critical end user services. End-to-end business service views provided by eG's 100% web-based interface depict the applications and network devices that support a business service and the inter-relationships they share. The interface also embeds efficient drill downs using which you can in no time go from a service topology view
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Using a custom monitoring model for Hyper-V servers, the eG VM Monitor
correlates performance between the Hyper-V server host and guest VMs |
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to the virtual applications that are supporting a service, to the virtual hosts on which these applications operate. In the event of a service outage, this service perspective to performance enables the eG VM Monitor to automatically correlate performance across the physical and virtualized tiers that are involved in service delivery, analyze the inter-dependencies between the components that are part of these tiers, and diagnose the root-cause of the outage.
The eG VM Monitor is also capable of dynamically mapping each VM with the physical Hyper-V server on which it operates - this knowledge not only aids the solution in drawing intelligent service topologies but also in tracking the movement of VMs from one Hyper-V server to another during migration.
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