Virtual machines running on Hyper-V are responsible for all system and Line of Business (LOB) applications for your company. As a virtualization and cloud administrator, it is your responsibility to check the host and the virtual machine health with monitoring applications, extract reports to verify workload increases, and then make possible tuning operations to get incremental performance increases, if needed.

It is recommended that you monitor your physical and virtual servers and make sure that they are working as expected. Some tools and utilities will let you know when something is not behaving normal, thus helping you to identify when tuning is required or whether a problem exists.

In some cases, errors will occur and you will have to be prepared to react immediately. Monitoring solutions will allow you to be notified, so that you can start the troubleshooting process to solve problems as soon as possible.

In this chapter, we will see how to use the default tools in Windows...