Monitoring Hyper-V Performance

re: Monitoring Hyper-V Performance

Dan Visan — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:44:00 GMT

Thanks!

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Alain Rosa — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:47:43 GMT

Hi,

Do you know how I can monitor Cluster Shared Volumes!

Thanks a lot. You blog was really helpful

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Kjartan — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:46:19 GMT

Hi,

I'm using SCOM and i want to calculate the total bandwidth used for a specified period of time, eg a month, for a single VM. How would i go about doing this? Thanks

re: Monitoring Hyper-V Performance

leobor — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:58:48 GMT

On one of the Hyper-V machines some of the counter groups show up normally in Performance Monitor but some are missing (namely Hyper-V Virtual IDE Controller, Hyper-V Virtual Storage Device, Hyper-V Hypervisor Partition, Hyper-V VM Vid Partition, Hyper-V Hypervisor Virtual Processor). This morning none of the Hyper-V counters was available – I asked admin to reboot, so some counters came back but some were still missing.

On the other hand, on another Hyper-V machine everything seems to be working properly.

As per an advise from the colleague, I ran EXCTRLST.EXE to see if there are corrupt counters. However, it does not show Hyper-V counters at all.

What could be a reason for such strange behavior? Is there a way to make Hyper-V counters always show up?

Thanks in advance!

re: Monitoring Hyper-V Performance

leobor — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:50:00 GMT

On the other hand, on another Hyper-V machine everything seems to be working properly.

As per an advise from the colleague, I ran EXCTRLST.EXE to see if there are corrupt counters. However, it does not show Hyper-V counters at all.

What could be a reason for such strange behavior? Is there a way to make Hyper-V counters always show up?

Thanks in advance!

re: Monitoring Hyper-V Performance

Kjartan Andreassen — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:32:35 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to use these counters in any way to get the monthly traffic per vm?

Thanks

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Ozlem — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:07:24 GMT

Where are the counter definitions kept. I couldn't find any ini file. There is no Performance key for the services under the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services. I found some related stuff under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\_V2Providers but no indication of where the definitions are.

Thank you.

[Tony's Reply]

The counter defs are in the vmms.exe and vmwp.exe

re: Monitoring Hyper-V Performance

scott — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:05:13 GMT

Thanks again.

Is there any way to get these same VM statistics using WMI?

[Tony's Reply]

See http://blogs.msdn.com/tvoellm/archive/2008/07/14/how-to-get-processor-utilization-for-hyper-v-via-wmi.aspx

re: Monitoring Hyper-V Performance

Scott — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:47:30 GMT

Thanks!

I forgot to mention that I want to do this remotely from a machine that will most likely not be in the same domain. I will have credentials for the target Hyper-V server.

It looks like this (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.performancecounter.machinename(VS.71).aspx) allows you to specify a remote machine, but I don't see how to enter credentials. The requesting machine in my app will not be part of the same domain.

[Tony's Reply]

You have to add the credentials to the "Windows Credential Manager" for the given server machine. If running Win7 just type credentials into the start/search box and it will come up or just run cmdkey.exe in a cmd prompt.

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Scott — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:37:27 GMT

I am after vm memory usage, vm disk activity, and vm network usage. This post answers which counters can give me that data, but I am having difficulty determining exactly how to query them.

I am in a C# environment. Can you direct me to or supply some code snippets that demonstrate how to request these counters?

Thanks,

Scott

[Tony's reply]

You can find sample code for reading performance counters in C# @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.performancecounter(VS.71).aspx

Enjoy - Tony