re: VM Monitoring in Windows Server 2012 – Frequently Asked Questions

Subhasish Bhattacharya — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:33:38 GMT

Hi Charo,

I'm sure you have considered using Operations Manager for this scenario - that would be the preferred way to do this.

However, if you'd like to use VM Monitoring:

- Configure monitoring on the VM for the event triggered when you're running out of free space

Examples of events would include: support.microsoft.com/.../2486243

- Next turn off the default recovery action as detailed in the blog. The cluster service would not take any action when the event is triggered in the VM but would generate an event on the host

- You can customize further. For instance you can generate a clustered scheduled task triggered off the event on the host to notify you with an email...

Thanks!

Subhasish

re: VM Monitoring in Windows Server 2012 – Frequently Asked Questions

CHARO — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:11:37 GMT

Dear Rob,

Another challenging question, What is the possibility to monitor the Free Disk Space (C:\ or D:\) for a VM within Hyper-V 2012 cluster using VM Monitoring feature?

I have 2 Nodes in a cluster, I need to monitor the free disk space for that particular VM, so when the C:\ drive is almost full, I will receive an alert.

Thank you and regards