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

If you deploy Hyper-V, it is important you report on and monitor the health of your Hyper-V host, as well as the health of the VMs. By monitoring the reports, you can detect issues, possibly 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: the VM host itself, and the VMs running on that host. This recipe creates two reports to mirror this.

This recipe uses a variety of methods to obtain key performance and usage metrics and converts this information into an object. The recipe begins by defining a PowerShell hash table...