07 | Monitoring System Center Virtual Machine Manager with Operations Manager Gordon McKenna | MVP & CEO | Inframon Symon Perriman | Vice President | 5nine Software
Virtual Machine Manager MP Overview Configuration Reports, Views and Tasks Best Practices Demo: Viewing data collected by the VMM MP Acquiring the Management Pack
Virtual Machine Manager Management Pack Overview The Virtual Machine Manager Management Pack monitors the health and availability of Virtual Machine Manager including: Hyper-V Hosts - VMM Database Hyper-V, ESX and Citrix Virtual Machines - VMM Library Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) - IP Address Pools Maintenance Mode Integration - MAC Pools VMM Management Server - User Roles Private Clouds - Load Balancers The Virtual Machine Manager Management Pack monitors the performance of: Private Clouds - Storage Pools Host and Host Clusters - Virtual Machines IP Address Pools - Services MAC Pools
Configuring the Virtual Machine Manager MP No Management Pack to Import Integration between Virtual Machine Manager and Operations Manager is configured in the System Center Settings node in Virtual Machine Manager The VMM service account must be an Operations Manager Administrator For PRO features the Operations Manager Management Server Action Accounts must be an Administrator in VMM The Operations Manager Console must be installed on the VMM Management Server
Virtual Machine Manager Management Pack Reports Virtual Machine Manager Reports include: Capacity Utilization - SAN Usage Forecasting Host Group Forecasting - Virtual Machine Utilization Host Utilization - Virtualization Candidates Power Savings - Virtual Machine Allocation
Virtual Machine Manager Management Pack Views There are a number of views and dashboards including: Cloud Health Dashboard Host Cluster Health Host Health IP Address Pool Health Load Balancer Health Service Health Host Performance Virtual Machine Performance Fabric Health Dashboard PRO Object State
Virtual Machine Manager Management Pack Tasks There are a number of Tasks including: Create Checkpoint Pause Save State Shutdown Start Stop
Virtual Machine Manager Management Pack Best Practices Create a Management Pack to Store Overrides To use PRO install a MMA on all Virtual Machines and Hyper-V Hosts Install a MMA on the VMM Management Server and Managed Hosts Create User Roles in Operations Manager for delegation of VMM authority: All Clouds All Hosts Library Servers Virtual Machine Manager Management Group
Viewing data collected by the Virtual Machine Manager Management Pack
Acquiring Virtual Machine Manager Management Pack The Virtual Machine Manager Management Pack is automatically installed when integration between Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager is configured Use the Operations Manager Server setting in the System Center Settings node in the Settings workspace of the VMM Console to configure integration