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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook

By : Leandro Eduardo S Carvalho, Leandro Carvalho
Book Image

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook

By: Leandro Eduardo S Carvalho, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

Virtualization has proved that it can help organizations to reduce costs, and the Private Cloud has created a revolution in the way we manage and control our servers with centralization and elasticity. The new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V release from Microsoft comes with a myriad of improvements in areas such as mobility, high availability and elasticity, bringing everything you need to create, manage and build the core components of a Microsoft Private Cloud for virtualized workloads."Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" is the perfect accompaniment for Hyper-V administrators looking to take advantage of all the exciting new features the release has to offer. Through practical recipes, you'll master Hyper-V deployment, migration and management. "Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" is an essential resource for any Hyper-V administrator looking to migrate, install and manage their virtual machine efficiently. With all the features of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V covered, you will learn everything from installation to disaster recovery, security, high availability, configuration, automation, architecture and monitoring, all in a practical recipe format. The book also includes new features such as Storage and Shared Nothing Live Migration, Hyper-V Replica and Network Virtualization and much more.With "Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" in hand, you'll be equipped to manage your Private Cloud with ease.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using VM Monitoring


System monitoring is the process of determining and finding problems in any of your servers, either physical or virtual.

VM Monitoring is a great assistant for virtual machine monitoring in clustered environments and helps to detect whether a virtual machine is running in a critical state. It will allow you to check the health of the VM service at the host level, identifying issues using events and status messages. VM Monitoring also enables the host to start a task to solve the problem in a proactive way, with no user interaction. In other words, it will check whether something is wrong, and if necessary, it will try to fix the problem automatically.

This recipe will show you how to prepare the virtual machine and the Management OS to use VM Monitoring.

Getting ready

There are some prerequisites that you need to note before you start. The first thing is that VM Monitoring is only available on virtual machines running on a cluster. All the host computer configurations are...