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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho
Book Image

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

Hyper-V 2016 is full of new features and updates. The second of our best-selling Hyper-V books, the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook has it all covered. Brimming with expert solutions and techniques, you?ll have everything you need to master virtualization and Hyper-V Manager. This Hyper-V book is designed to help advanced-level administrators benefit fully from the new Windows Server. With over 80 hands-on recipes, the Hyper-V Cookbook gives you tips, tricks and best practices to deploy, maintain and upgrade your virtual machines.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Using resource metering


In hybrid cloud environments, you might have different scenarios for each department, location, business unit, or even client in the case of service providers. One of the benefits a cloud can offer is the ability to measure and bill your clients based on the current consumption of services. Tracking utilization for these resources can be difficult and complex and requires proper applications and systems.

Hyper-V makes that simple with Resource Metering. This allows you to track and measure the current usage for virtual machines and resources pools, helping the IT department to bill clients based on the usage of cloud resources.

These are some examples of metrics that can be collected with Resource Metering:

  • Average, minimum, and maximum VM memory usage

  • Average VM processor usage

  • Total VM disk allocation

  • Network traffic reports (incoming and outgoing)

  • Resource pool measurement for all types of resources within a pool

With Resource Metering, companies can implement advanced...