1. 07 | Monitoring System Center Virtual Machine Manager with Operations Manager
Gordon McKenna | MVP & CEO | Inframon
Symon Perriman | Vice President | 5nine Software

2. Virtual Machine Manager MP Overview
Configuration
Reports, Views and Tasks
Best Practices
Demo: Viewing data collected by the VMM MP
Acquiring the Management Pack

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Virtual Machine Manager Management Pack Tasks
There are a number of Tasks including:
Create Checkpoint
Pause
Save State
Shutdown
Start
Stop

8. 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

9. Viewing data collected by the Virtual Machine Manager Management Pack

10. 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