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Microsoft Hyper-V Infrastructure

Monitor health and performance of the Hyper-V clusters, hosts and VMs.

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Product information
Release notes

Overview

This extension monitors performance of the Hyper-V fabric, tracking health, performance and resource utilization of the Hyper-V VMs, together with the context of their host and cluster resources. Hyper-V extension leverages PowerShell cmdlets and WMI to collect data from the Windows hypervisor, following best practices employed by Microsoft, as well as Dynatrace customers who contributed to validation of this extension in real-life situations.

This is intended for users, who:
Want to get full monitoring for their Hyper-V clusters, detect problems ahead of serious impact, and pinpoint the root cause in their virtualization and application layer, including:

Processor bottlenecks
Memory bottlenecks
Network bottlenecks
Storage bottlenecks
Dependent applications hosted on the Hyper-V cluster

Use cases

This extension enables you to:

Monitor health and performance of your Hyper-V cluster, using built-in analysis screens and easy-to-navigate dashboards
Make sure resources are split optimally between the virtual machines
Relate performance of the applications and VMs monitored with OneAgent to the underlying Hyper-V resources allotted to the VMs

Get started

This extension is executed by the OneAgent (local monitoring). To start, simply activate the extension in your environment using the in-product Hub, and provide a Windows user account with at least the following permissions:

Hyper-V Administrators group
Read access to the cluster, check with Get-ClusterAccess

Details

Metrics collected:

VMs’ health
Memory usage
CPU utilization
Storage operations
Network traffic

This extension is built on top of the Extension Framework 2.0 and delivers:

Configuration required to drive the Hyper-V PowerShell cmdlets execution and scrape metrics from them
A Dashboard
Topology definitions
Unified Analysis screens

Compatibility information

Compatibility Requirements

x64 OS with BIOS-activated virtualization:
- Windows 10 Enterprise/Pro/Education
- Windows Server 2016 or newer
Hyper-V VM Configuration Version 9.0 or higer

Q&A

Q: What is the DDU Consumption of this extension?

A: The formula for DDU consumption of the extension is:

  ( ( 3 * number of Clusters)
+ ( ( 9 * number of Hosts)
+ ( ( 6 * number of VMs)
+ ( ( 4 * number of Storage Devices)
+ ( ( 4 * number of Virtual Storage Devices)
+ ( ( 6 * number of NICs)
+ ( ( 6 * number of vNICs) ) * 525.6 DDUs/year

DDU cost above does not include any possible Log events or Custom events triggered by the extension. For more information on this, please visit the DDU log event cost and DDU custom event cost pages.

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Extension content

Content typeNumber of items included

screen layout

7

list screen layout

7

screen injections

1

screen properties

2

screen chart groups

16

screen entities lists

11

generic type

7

metric query

10

alerts

10

generic relationship

7

dashboards

1

metric metadata

50

Feature sets

Below is a complete list of the feature sets provided in this version. To ensure a good fit for your needs, individual metrics can be activated and deactivated by your administrator during configuration.

Feature setsNumber of metrics included

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Total Disk Space	hyperv.virtual_machine.storage_device.total_disk_space	-	Byte
Used Disk Space	hyperv.virtual_machine.storage_device.used_disk_space	-	Byte

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Total Memory	hyperv.host.total_memory	-	KiloByte
Available Memory	hyperv.host.available_memory	-	KiloByte

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Network Bytes Sent	hyperv.virtual_machine.network_interface_card.bytes_sent	-	BytePerSecond
Network Bytes Received	hyperv.virtual_machine.network_interface_card.bytes_received	-	BytePerSecond
Network Bytes Transferred	hyperv.virtual_machine.network_interface_card.bytes_transferred	-	BytePerSecond

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Virtual Machine Count	hyperv.host.virtual_machine_count.gauge	-	Count
Running Virtual Machine Count	hyperv.host.running_virtual_machine_count.gauge	-	Count
Uptime	hyperv.host.uptime	-	Seconds

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
CPU Count	hyperv.virtual_machine.cpu_count.gauge	-	Cores
CPU Reserve	hyperv.virtual_machine.cpu_reserve	-	Percent
CPU Utilization	hyperv.virtual_machine.cpu_utilization	-	Percent
Total Memory	hyperv.virtual_machine.total_memory	-	Bytes
Used Memory	hyperv.virtual_machine.used_memory	-	Bytes
Memory Pressure	hyperv.virtual_machine.memory_pressure	-	Percent

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Total Disk Size	hyperv.host.disk.total_size	-	Bytes
Available Disk Space	hyperv.host.disk.space_free	-	Bytes

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Network Bytes Sent	hyperv.host.network_interface_card.bytes_sent	-	BytePerSecond
Network Bytes Received	hyperv.host.network_interface_card.bytes_received	-	BytePerSecond
Network Bytes Transferred	hyperv.host.network_interface_card.bytes_transferred	-	BytePerSecond

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Disk Read Rate	hyperv.host.disk.read_rate	-	PerSecond
Disk Write Rate	hyperv.host.disk.write_rate	-	PerSecond

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Disk Read Rate	hyperv.virtual_machine.storage_device.read_rate	-	PerSecond
Disk Write Rate	hyperv.virtual_machine.storage_device.write_rate	-	PerSecond

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Network Packets Sent	hyperv.host.network_interface_card.packets_sent	-	BytePerSecond
Network Packets Received	hyperv.host.network_interface_card.packets_received	-	BytePerSecond
Network Packets Transferred	hyperv.host.network_interface_card.packets_transferred	-	BytePerSecond

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Total Space	hyperv.cluster_shared_volume.total_space	-	Byte
Used Disk Space	hyperv.cluster_shared_volume.used_space	-	Byte
Available Disk Space	hyperv.cluster_shared_volume.free_space	-	Byte

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
CPU Utilization	hyperv.host.cpu_utilization	-	Percent
Logical CPU Count	hyperv.host.logical_cpu_count.gauge	-	Cores
Physical CPU Count	hyperv.host.physical_cpu_count.gauge	-	Cores
CPU Reserve	hyperv.host.cpu_reserve	-	Percent

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Network Packets Sent	hyperv.virtual_machine.network_interface_card.packets_sent	-	PerSecond
Network Packets Received	hyperv.virtual_machine.network_interface_card.packets_received	-	PerSecond
Network Packets Transferred	hyperv.virtual_machine.network_interface_card.packets_transferred	-	PerSecond

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Full version history

To have more information on how to install the downloaded package, please follow the instructions on this page.

ReleaseDate

Fixed a bug affecting extension activation under certain conditions. Extension logs on affected systems reported "AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'feature_sets' "

Release notes
Release 2.0.0

Extension has been re-written to leverage PowerShell cmdlets instead of WMI metric retrieval
PowerShell cmdlets enable the extension to retrieve focused metrics that are essential to Hyper-V performance monitoring
PowerShell cmdlets are instantiated using Python runtime, to control execution and assure required permissions to access specifc metric counters

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