HyperV Management User Guide

Overview

This DEX Pack shows performance and usage data for HyperV Management of virtual machines.

Use this DEX Pack to assess provisioning needs, system issues, and performance.

Machine Rightsizing

Determine if virtual machines are over or under provisioned and those that are right sized for HyperV.

Usage

Assess how endpoints are using HyperV Hosts.

Performance

Discover how HyperV Management impacts performance and other health metrics.

Sensors

Identify and troubleshoot specific system issues affecting HyperV hosts.

Machine Rightsizing

Global Filters

Select the Group and the System Type: Virtual, Physical, or All.

Machine Rightsizing Summary

This graph shows the percentage of the systems that are rightsized, over-provisioned, or under-provisioned. If a system is under-provisioned in any metric, it is labeled as under-provisioned.

This is true even if that system is over-provisioned in other metrics. A system is only listed as right sized if it is not under-provisioned or over-provisioned in any metric.

Note: The CPU recommendation accounts for the user’s observed CPU usage and then adds a portion of additional capacity to avoid maxing out the CPU.

The sizing types are:

Green Rightsized
Light Blue Over-Provisioned
Dark Blue Under-Provisioned

Machine Rightsizing Summary Details

This grid displays details of rightsizing HyperV virtual machines in your enterprise.

  • Double click the systems that are Online under status to enter Resolve.

Machine Rightsizing Explanation and Calculations

For virtual systems, you may need to alter provisioning for under-provisioned or over-provisioned systems. The Suggested Memory/CPU/Disk columns show suggested changes highlighted in yellow. Use C Drive Free GB and Graphical Intensity Usage to assess storage and GPU provisioning, respectively.

For physical systems, you may be able to virtualize over-provisioned systems. This may free up resources and be more cost effective for your enterprise. For under-provisioned physical systems, you may need to troubleshoot causes behind the performance issues, or the users may require an upgraded system.

Factors that Influence Sizing

Graphics Index over 75 % Heavy
Graphics Index between 10-75% Moderate
Graphics Index less than 10% Light
Max Memory Capacity between 80-100% Right Sized
Max Memory Capacity less than 80% Over Provisioned
Max Memory Capacity over 80% Under Provisioned
125% of Max CPU is 80-100% Right Sized
125% of Max CPU is less than 80% Over Provisioned
125% of Max CPU is greater than 100% Under Provisioned
Virtual Machines  
125% of Max CPU is greater than 100% of capacity and system type Remove Cores
125% of Max CPU is less than 80% of capacity and system type Add Cores
Physical Machines  
125% of Max CPU utilization is less than 80% of CPU capacity and system type Remove Cores
Free C-Drive percentage is between 10 and 75% free Right Sized
Less than 10% Under Provisioned
Over 75% Over Provisioned

Calculations for Memory Rightsizing

Calculations are based on Max Memory Utilization and recommended memory size based on 125% of that value.

The sizing is split into buckets. Below are the possible values that will be recommended. There is a different set of values for physical and virtual.

125% of max memory utilization is between 0 and 4 GB, we recommend 4GB

Physical  

4-8

 8

8-12

12

12-16

16

16-20

20

20-24

 24

24-28

 28

28-32

 32
32+ No change (Right Sized)

 

Virtual  

0-2

 2

2-4

 4

4-6

6

6-8

 8

8-10

 10

10-12

 12

12-14

 14

14-16

 16

16-18

 18

18-20

 20

20-22

 22

22-24

 24

24-26

 26

26-28

 28

28-30

 30

30-32

 32
o 32+ "no change" (Right Sized)

If the recommendation matches the existing memory capacity of the system, "no change" (Right Sized).

Overall Provisioning Logic

If all 3 metrics (CPU, Max Memory Utilization, C-Drive Diskspace) says "no change", the system is "right sized".

If any of the following are true, the system is "under-provisioned".

  • CPU recommendation is Add Cores or Overutilized

  • Memory recommendation is to increase memory size

  • Disk recommendation is Low Space

Any systems that do not meet the conditions listed above are Over-Provisioned

Usage

Endpoints with HyperV Installed (Host)

This grid shows the endpoints where HyperV has been installed and if any VMs (Virutal Machines) have been created.

Endpoints VM’s without HyperV data (Guest)

This grid shows the HyperV Virtual machines that are in “guest” mode. This will alert you that these VMs have not been properly configured into SysTrack. Please consult your internal IT department to properly configure your HyperV machines or consult Lakeside Support.

Performance

Overview

This Dashboard covers the HyperV performance averaged over a 24-hour period. The Detailed Data Dashboard is data for every 15 seconds.

HyperV Hosts

This grid shows the HyperV hosts that are available across your enterprise. Double-click on a host name to get more detailed date from the endpoint. The endpoint will need to be connected to SysTrack and online to gather data.

HyperV Chart

Select a HyperV Host from the HyperV Hosts pane to fill this grid. From the drop-down menu, select a metric to explore and a HyperV Counter. These selections will reveal the trend of this metric on the graph.

Health Impact Categories

This graph shows categories that impact the health of the HyperV Host over a 24-hour period.

  • Select a category to narrow down the data.

Health Trend

This chart shows health trend for the HyperV host over the last 24 hours.

Health Thresholds

90 and higher Green (Working optimally)
70-89 Yellow (May need attention)
69 below Red (Performance and Digital Experience highly impacted)

Detailed Data

HyperV Hosts (Detailed)

This grid shows the HyperV hosts that are available across your enterprise. Double-click on a host name to get more detailed date from the endpoint. The endpoint will need to be connected to SysTrack and online to gather data. This data is collected over the last 15 seconds.

HyperV Chart (Detailed)

Select a HyperV Host from the HyperV Hosts pane to fill this grid. From the drop-down menu, select a metric to explore and a HyperV Counter. These selections will reveal the trend of this metric on the graph.

Health Impact Categories

This graph shows categories that impact the health of the HyperV Host over a 24-hour period.

  • Select a category to narrow down the data.

Health Trend

This chart shows health trend for the HyperV host over the last 24 hours.

Health Thresholds

90 and higher Green (Working optimally)
70-89 Yellow (May need attention)
69 below Red (Performance and Digital Experience highly impacted

Sensors

Triggered Sensors

This grid lists all sensors relevant to HyperV hosts that triggered in the past 30 days. It also shows which sensors are currently active on HyperV hosts. If any HyperV-specific sensors are triggered, they are shown at the top of the grid. The Selected Sensor will populate the rest of the dashboard.

  • Double-click a sensor to view additional sensor information in Prevent.

Sensor Description (Selected Sensor)

This pane shows the description for the sensor selected in Triggered Sensors.

Active Sensor Trend (Selected Sensor)

This graph shows the number of HyperV hosts that triggered the Selected Sensor. This data represents the last 30 days.

System Details (Selected Sensor)

This grid shows all the HyperV host that triggered the Selected Sensor in the last 30 days.

  • Double-click an online system for more details in Resolve.