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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

Enabling reporting in VMM


After integrating VMM with Operations Manager for monitoring, you can also enable the integration to provide reporting, which will give you the ability to create and view reports related to Hyper-V servers, VMs, and VMM-related components (for example, the management and library servers).

Note

Operations Manager only supports SQL Server Reporting Services in the native mode.

Getting ready

In order to enable reporting, you will need to have SQL Server Analysis Service (SSAS) preinstalled on the Operations Manager Reporting server (for example, lab\w2012-scom).

You also need to install Analysis Management Objects (AMO) on all of the VMM management servers for the SQL Server version you have installed. For SQL 2012 SP1, refer to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35580.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to configure the SQL Server Analysis Services in VMM:

  1. Open the VMM console. On the bottom-left pane, click to open the Settings workspace,...