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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook

By : Leandro Eduardo S Carvalho, Leandro Carvalho
Book Image

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook

By: Leandro Eduardo S Carvalho, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

Virtualization has proved that it can help organizations to reduce costs, and the Private Cloud has created a revolution in the way we manage and control our servers with centralization and elasticity. The new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V release from Microsoft comes with a myriad of improvements in areas such as mobility, high availability and elasticity, bringing everything you need to create, manage and build the core components of a Microsoft Private Cloud for virtualized workloads."Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" is the perfect accompaniment for Hyper-V administrators looking to take advantage of all the exciting new features the release has to offer. Through practical recipes, you'll master Hyper-V deployment, migration and management. "Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" is an essential resource for any Hyper-V administrator looking to migrate, install and manage their virtual machine efficiently. With all the features of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V covered, you will learn everything from installation to disaster recovery, security, high availability, configuration, automation, architecture and monitoring, all in a practical recipe format. The book also includes new features such as Storage and Shared Nothing Live Migration, Hyper-V Replica and Network Virtualization and much more.With "Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" in hand, you'll be equipped to manage your Private Cloud with ease.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using real-time monitoring tools


The process of monitoring their servers is an important task for a server administrator.

By monitoring the performance of physical and virtual servers, you obtain data that can be used to understand the workload and its effects, identify bottlenecks and resource trends, diagnose issues, and optimize the system.

There are two options to monitor your system: real-time monitoring and logged monitoring.

Real-time monitoring is normally used to check server performance for troubleshooting purposes, to quickly and easily identify the cause of poor performance, for example. Logged monitoring is used to measure and collect performance data, so that you can identify workload problems and trends.

In this recipe, we will walk through some default tools that can be used for real-time monitoring.

Getting ready

Before you begin, make sure your account is a member of the local administrators group. The Performance Monitor Users group also can be used (for monitoring purposes...