Hyper-V cluster monitoring issues..
At this point in time, we are on version 11100 of the essential edition running on SQL, but we experience these same issues in every previous version we have tried...
We are running a 4 node Hyper-V host cluster, running server 2012. SNMP and WMI are both enabled and functioning on all machines.
The issue is that the hosts always have orphan or duplicate virtual machines....
Things we have tried: removing all Hosts and re-adding one by one.
Removing and re-adding the VM's, however they cannot be set as a Virtual device, they must be rediscovered by the host...
So we tried removing the VM's and re-discovering the Host... tried using DNS name and using IP address.... We always either get duplicates or orphans....
So say I ignore the duplicates, and we have to take a host down for maintenance, well what do you know, all those VM's are now orphans...
So we try all the re-discovery methods, those don't work, so we remove and then re add, and we have more duplicates of the good machines again..
Besides that the memory monitoring has some issues... If we go to any host and try to view the memory usage by virtual machine, we get back all 0's and no graph..
We are running a 4 node Hyper-V host cluster, running server 2012. SNMP and WMI are both enabled and functioning on all machines.
The issue is that the hosts always have orphan or duplicate virtual machines....
Things we have tried: removing all Hosts and re-adding one by one.
Removing and re-adding the VM's, however they cannot be set as a Virtual device, they must be rediscovered by the host...
So we tried removing the VM's and re-discovering the Host... tried using DNS name and using IP address.... We always either get duplicates or orphans....
So say I ignore the duplicates, and we have to take a host down for maintenance, well what do you know, all those VM's are now orphans...
So we try all the re-discovery methods, those don't work, so we remove and then re add, and we have more duplicates of the good machines again..
Besides that the memory monitoring has some issues... If we go to any host and try to view the memory usage by virtual machine, we get back all 0's and no graph..
All of our virtual machines show 0% memory usage on their snapshot page too
And I've noticed that the VM's almost always have 0KBps for network usage as well... I've done full device re-discovery and the rediscovery on the interfaces pages to no avail...
We do not intend on renewing our AMS to upgrade our license and pay for a product we have yet to see work completely as advertised... we haven't spent a WHOLE lot of time trying to fix all of these issues... we had hoped that's what the ManageEngine team was doing...
We are wondering either how we can fix above issues, or what version of OpManager we can go to, to have proper Memory monitoring and Virtual Machine monitoring for Hyper-V as is CURRENTLY being advertised here:
http://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/hyperv-monitoring.html
Active tracking of inventory and resources allocated
The biggest challenge in virtual infrastructure maintenance is to avoid sprawl and zombie virtual machines. This is achieved only by maintaining an active tracking of virtual machine list per host and a list that details resource allocated to each virtual machine. This is done automatically through OpManager active inventory probing. So even when the virtual machines do a "Live Migration" within the virtual cluster, it is captured
by OpManager.
Comprehensive Hyper-V infrastructure monitoring:
Specific to Hyper-V monitoring, OpManager has over 40 monitors on CPU, Memory, Disk and Network for the Hyper-V host and guests. Administrators can set thresholds for all these monitors and get alerted if the monitor exceeds the specified performance level.
We do not intend on renewing our AMS to upgrade our license and pay for a product we have yet to see work completely as advertised... we haven't spent a WHOLE lot of time trying to fix all of these issues... we had hoped that's what the ManageEngine team was doing...
We are wondering either how we can fix above issues, or what version of OpManager we can go to, to have proper Memory monitoring and Virtual Machine monitoring for Hyper-V as is CURRENTLY being advertised here:
http://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/hyperv-monitoring.html
Active tracking of inventory and resources allocated
The biggest challenge in virtual infrastructure maintenance is to avoid sprawl and zombie virtual machines. This is achieved only by maintaining an active tracking of virtual machine list per host and a list that details resource allocated to each virtual machine. This is done automatically through OpManager active inventory probing. So even when the virtual machines do a "Live Migration" within the virtual cluster, it is captured
by OpManager.
Comprehensive Hyper-V infrastructure monitoring:
Specific to Hyper-V monitoring, OpManager has over 40 monitors on CPU, Memory, Disk and Network for the Hyper-V host and guests. Administrators can set thresholds for all these monitors and get alerted if the monitor exceeds the specified performance level.
Thanks,
-Brandon