Monitor Hyper-V with PRTG
Why is Hyper V performance monitoring important?
From a security standpoint, a virtualized environment faces more risks than a physical environment: centralizing multiple applications on a single box creates a single point of failure, both for the physical server itself, and in its network connection. When a virtualized server crashes, or its network connection slows or breaks, it impacts all the applications on that server. Hyper V monitoring provides vital information for planning, testing and monitoring virtualized environments.
PRTG Network Monitor is all you need to monitor Hyper V or other virtual machines. As a VMware partner, Paessler AG effectively and efficiently monitors virtual servers based upon VMware technology, including VMware compatible technologies such as Microsoft Hyper V.
The network monitoring solution from Paessler provides the comprehensive real-time monitoring necessary to ensure the reliability and stability of virtual environments. With specially-designed sensors that can be quickly and easily deployed, PRTG Network Monitor provides continuous collection and analysis of network data across virtualized applications and servers.
How can PRTG be used to monitor Hyper-V?
Even before starting a virtualization project, it is essential to identify the CPU and memory load, hard disk usage and network capacity requirements of the applications to be included in the virtual infrastructure. PRTG Network Monitor can provide this data, allowing administrators to assess the impact virtualization will have on their physical servers. Therefore, the server monitoring software avoids server overloads and unexpected failures.
Once the virtualization has started, it is important to monitor Hyper-V to identify and assess the current and expected resource load on each network connection or host server, based on historic usage data, to prevent proliferation of too many virtual machines on a single host server, which could lead to a system crash. Customizable thresholds may be set to restrict utilization at 75 percent, for example, and an automatic alert can be configured to notify administrators when the threshold has been reached. To this end, PRTG offers a variety of different alerting options (SMS, email, send SNMP traps or syslog messages, execute an external programme, play a sound etc.).
Besides preventing overuse of critical resources, Hyper-V performance monitoring with PRTG can optimize resource usage by identifying host servers that are being underutilized to better balance server load and leverage existing hardware to its fullest potential.
The performance of all virtual systems on a host usually suffers from one virtual system running into a performance or load peak. If you monitor Hyper-V with PRTG, you will discover such events quickly and be able to react quickly and efficiently. Not only will your Hyper V performance monitoring notify you of a problem - you will also know where the problem is. Thus, PRTG makes troubleshooting virtual environments easy.
Download PRTG and monitor Hyper V
You can test our Hyper V monitoring software PRTG with the 30-Day-Trial-Edition. The Freeware Edition is completely free for personal and commercial use and may be downloaded at no cost.
The Commercial Editions are required if you want to monitor more than ten sensors. Licenses start at $400 / €300.
However, PRTG is much more than a tool to monitor Hyper V or virtualized environments. PRTG Network Monitor is a comprehensive availability and bandwidth monitoring solution for any network. It ensures the availability of network components and databases (MySQL, SQL and Oracle monitoring) while also monitoring network traffic and usage. PRTG supports more than 50 sensor types, it can be used as a free syslog server and SNMP Trap receiver, VoIP monitor (measuring parameters like jitter, duplicate packets or packet loss), or web performance test software.