Hyper-V Monitoring Tool
Fix virtualization issues with the right Hyper-V performance monitoring tool
View key insights in a detailed Hyper-V performance dashboard
SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager (VMAN), a Hyper-V monitoring tool, offers a customized dashboard equipped with alerts to notify you of critical VM performance issues such as memory ballooning, datastore latency, phantom snapshot files, and high CPU utilization. You can customize your dashboard alerts at different layers of your Hyper-V infrastructure, including cluster, host, and VM. The preconfigured dashboard alerts provide critical warning messages and recommended actions for identifying root causes, solving issues, and managing the performance of your hypervisor environment.
Analyze storage I/O performance
Competition for I/O storage, network latency, and failures are among the most common storage-related performance issues in Hyper-V tools for Windows, Linux, and other host operating systems.
An effective virtualization management tool should present a comprehensive, all-encompassing view of shared storage and silos. With VMAN, you can measure critical storage metrics such as read/write, IOPs, and throughput. Address storage contention issues at cluster, host, and virtual machine levels at the right time to avoid both slow applications and additional hours of work.
Speed up post-event analysis
With VM virtualization dependency mapping capabilities, SolarWinds VMAN is designed for you to place one or more objects in conversation with each other on a dependency map and instantly see all related objects. Using its integrated Hyper-V performance monitoring tool, VMAN includes a "time travel" feature to give you a full historical account of VM configuration data and infrastructure relationships. This means you can identify historical dependencies from a specific time in your Microsoft Hyper-V environment. You can also use this feature to highlight specific machines in your operating system, such as VMs belonging to a host seven days ago, VMs that generated the most I/Os, and more.
Monitor growth and VM sprawl
VM sprawl occurs when inactive virtual machines are left running in the background. Since all the VMs on a single host are sharing a set amount of resources, one VM can drain a lot of resources by running idly. The continuous growth of VMs and their usage can negatively affect application performance and server operating times.
To help optimize your VMs, Virtualization Manager includes a unique VM Sprawl dashboard built to provide recommendations for which resources are over-and under-allocated for CPU and memory. This can help you reclaim storage from idle and powered-off machines.
Analyze your Hyper-V resource network to prevent bottlenecks
Performance bottlenecks are a common problem for companies running virtualization software. For example, having inadequate hardware resources available or running low on storage space can cause slowdowns and performance issues.
So, how do you check Hyper-V resources more effectively? Virtualization Manager offers intuitive charts and graphs to help you monitor and better understand which VMs are generating heavy network traffic or experiencing high usage. With different reports and alerts, you can stay up-to-date about problems with Hyper-V resource allocation, receive recommendations to help optimize the performance of existing VMs, and more easily plan for future capacity needs. VMAN can also help you more quickly troubleshoot current operation issues and reconfigure your system to prevent bottlenecks.
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Do you find yourself asking…
Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization tool used to create, run, and monitor virtual machines without additional hardware. It is a hypervisor, or a tool used to support many different VMs on a single host. It’s one of the most popular hypervisor software programs available today and can virtualize entire operating systems as well as hardware components.
Hyper-V tools allow network administrators to configure an easier-to-manage virtualized computing environment by centralizing core processes. With the right tool you can also easily toggle between different operating systems and build or remove what doesn’t serve you. It’s most commonly used to build, oversee, and monitor private cloud systems.
Hyper-V systems are composed of the same parts as any physical piece of hardware—like a memory bank, processor, and network—in a customizable, virtual form. Since Hyper-V is customizable down to the characteristics of each individual virtual machine, it’s possible to support different computing environments like Linux, Windows, and other operating systems without compromising the functionality of any machine.
Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization tool used to create, run, and monitor virtual machines without additional hardware. It is a hypervisor, or a tool used to support many different VMs on a single host. It’s one of the most popular hypervisor software programs available today and can virtualize entire operating systems as well as hardware components.
Hyper-V tools allow network administrators to configure an easier-to-manage virtualized computing environment by centralizing core processes. With the right tool you can also easily toggle between different operating systems and build or remove what doesn’t serve you. It’s most commonly used to build, oversee, and monitor private cloud systems.
Hyper-V systems are composed of the same parts as any physical piece of hardware—like a memory bank, processor, and network—in a customizable, virtual form. Since Hyper-V is customizable down to the characteristics of each individual virtual machine, it’s possible to support different computing environments like Linux, Windows, and other operating systems without compromising the functionality of any machine.
Take full control of your VM environment with Hyper-V tools
Virtualization Manager
Resolve VM performance issues in Hyper-V with just a few clicks
Use custom recommendations to achieve optimal VM performance in Hyper-V
Gain recommendations about Hyper-V resource utilization