Creating a Hyper-V report

Your Hyper-V hosts are almost certainly mission-critical. Indeed, any Hyper-V host you deploy is critical to your IT infrastructure. If a Hyper-V host goes down or starts suffering from performance or capacity issues, it can affect all the VMs running on that host.

If you deploy Hyper-V, you must report on and monitor the health of your HyperV host, as well as the health of the VMs. By monitoring the reports, you can detect issues before they become critical. If your VM host, for example, has a slowly increasing CPU load, you can consider moving a VM to another VM host.

Reports that you use to monitor the health of a Hyper-V host fall into two broad categories – firstly, details about the VM host itself. Secondly, you need to monitor the VMs running on that host. This recipe creates a report containing both sets of information.

Getting ready

This recipe runs on the Hyper-V host HV1. The host should be set up as per the Installing Hyper...