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Foglight for Hyper-V 5.8.3 - User Guide

About Foglight for Hyper-V Agent administration Performance monitoring with the Hyper-V Environment dashboard Performance investigation with the Hyper-V Explorer Foglight for Hyper-V alarms Appendix: Hyper-V Agent error codes

Instances and Limits view

This view displays the list of the existing Hyper-V object types. This information can give you insight into the size of your database and whether additional adjustments are required to improve your system performance.

Figure 9. Instances and Limits view
Table 2. Description of the View
Data displayed
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Instance Count. The current number of object instances of this type.
 
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Instance Limit. The maximum number of object instances of this type that can be instantiated.
 
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Object Type. The type of the topology object.
 
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Status. The current status representing the highest severity level associated with an instance of that type.
 
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Utilized. The percentage of the object limit instance that is currently utilized.

Performance monitoring with the Hyper-V Environment dashboard

Performance monitoring with the Hyper-V Environment dashboard

A typical virtual environment contains a set of physical servers and virtual machines. A physical server can be a part of a cluster, and can have one or more virtual machines associated with it. You can view the overall state of these components on the Hyper-V Environment dashboard.

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Accessing the Hyper-V Environment dashboard
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Monitoring tab
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About frequently asked questions
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About reports
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Foglight for Capacity Management
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Foglight Resource Optimizer for Hyper-V Environments

Accessing the Hyper-V Environment dashboard

Accessing the Hyper-V Environment dashboard

When you navigate to the Hyper-V Environment dashboard for the first time, the Monitoring tab appears. This tab provides an overall summary of your virtual environment.

Figure 10. Hyper-V Environment dashboard

To access the Hyper-V Environment dashboard:
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Log in to the Foglight browser interface.
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Ensure that the navigation panel is open.
To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow on the left.
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On the navigation panel, under Homes, click Hyper-V Environment.
The Hyper-V Environment dashboard appears in the display area.
The Hyper-V Environment dashboard shows summary information about the clusters, servers, and virtual machines in your environment, and additional information about each specific component.
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Select the Clusters, Servers, Virtual Machines, SOFS Servers, SCVMM Servers, Storage, or Virtual Switches tile from the top left.

Monitoring tab

The Monitoring tab allows you to select a monitoring object or a group of objects, such as clusters, servers, virtual machines, virtual switches, or volumes, and review the data associated with your selection. For example, selecting all servers identifies the top three consumers of CPU, memory, network, and disk resources and shows the related alarm states. Selecting a specific server shows the CPU, memory, network, and disk usage for the selected server, along with high-level hardware and software configuration.

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