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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
Book Image

System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Extending monitoring with management packs


With management packs, you can extend Operations Manager (OpsMgr) and its possibilities.

On a hybrid hypervisor environment, where there is a mix of Hyper-V and VMware ESXi servers, the Veeam MP extends the OpsMgr for monitoring, alerting, and for undertaking remedial actions on VMware vSphere.

Veeam MP for VMware uses the vSphere API to gather information to allow monitoring and reporting against all layers of the VMware stack, which include layers from the underlying hardware through network, storage, hosts, clusters, datacenters, and up to vCenter. Examples of the key metrics for the VMware admins include latency, CPU ready, disk, and memory pressure against a host.

Tip

At the time of this writing, Veeam released a management pack for System Center, adding support to Microsoft Hyper-V. Now, with one MP, you have visibility of critical virtual systems, risk mitigation, and proactive monitoring of Hyper-V and vSphere from the Microsoft System Center...