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Vital Signs for Windows Hyper-V Server

Real-time Performance Troubleshooting for Microsoft’s Private Cloud

Virtualization is ubiquitous. More companies than ever are virtualizing major workloads into Microsoft’s Private Cloud solution built atop Hyper-V Server. Mission critical applications rely on the performance of this virtualized solution. Hyper-V is complex and changes dynamically. Manually diagnosing, troubleshooting and resolving Hyper-V performance problems is nearly impossible.

Without a real-time view into both the Hyper- V server’s and its virtualized hosts’ health, configuration changes, dynamic re-allocations, IT Pros are left frustrated when trying to resolve problems. Vital Signs for Hyper-V is the answer. With its real-time performance, configuration, event views and informative graphical interface designed by Hyper-V experts, you are able to immediately identify performance problems, visually correlate significant events and configuration changes to immediately start resolving problems.

Proactive Management for Dynamic Clouds

Vital Signs provides early-warming of potential problems for workloads delivered on Windows Hyper-V. Understanding how virtual hosts are using compute resources – CPU, memory, disk, network – is critical to ensuring that the physical host is optimized for mission-critical application delivery. By coupling historic and real-time data, IT Pros are able to see impending performance problems up to an hour before end-users are affected.

Real-time Performance Data

Vital Signs instantly displays dozens of real-time performance graphs that allow IT Pros to determine the health of all virtualized hosts on a Windows Hyper-V server. Drilling in further to a virtual host, IT Pros may remotely determine its CPU, network, memory, disk throughput and storage utilization in up-to-the-second interactive performance charts.

No New Infrastructure Footprint

Vital Signs for Microsoft’s Private Cloud can use an IT departments existing system management infrastructure, such as System Center Operations Manager. Vital Signs collects everything remotely from its agentless architecture. IT Pros may access Vital Signs from any web browser that support Silverlight 4.

Self-Calibrating Performance Thresholds

Vital Signs displays what is considered normal performance based on its calibration period. Vital Signs automatically calibrates thresholds based on past performance of the Hyper-V host, thereby eliminating any human guesswork. Threshold alerts visually indicate impending performance problems up to one hour before an outage. 

Vital Signs For Microsoft's Private Clouds

Vital Signs is an troubleshooting product for any Hyper-V or Private Cloud solution. Vital Signs helps you proactively identify impending CPU, Memory, Network and Disk throughput performance problems, troubleshoot specific VM or Hyper-V problems and optimize system and virtual capacity over-time.

Vital Signs For Microsoft's Private Clouds

Virtual Machines

A list of all virtual machines showing processor, memory, network, and disk utilization allowing for quick identification of which virtual machines are consuming the most resources.  The details view shows key performance indicators for each individual virtual machine, as well as the configured virtual networks, virtual hard disks, associated snapshots, and key properties.

Key Performance Indicators

A unified view of all key performance indicators of your Hyper-V Server. The built-in calibration system ensures that thresholds relevant for your environment are used. Visual event correlation allows you to pinpoint the root cause of a problem at a glance.

Storage

A graphical view of your Hyper-V Server's storage system including all virtual hard disks.  Each virtual hard disk is shown on the disk and volume where it resides providing a powerful at a glance view of the storage footprint for each virtual machine.

Virtual Networks

A list of all virtual networks showing throughput, network type, and the name of the bound physical adapter in the case of external networks.  The details view shows key performance indicators for each individual virtual network.

Virtual Hard Disks

A list of all virtual hard disks showing throughput, size and file location allowing for quick comparisons of virtual hard disks across all virtual machines.  The details view shows key performance indicators for each individual virtual hard disk.

Snapshots

A list of all snapshots, shown as a hierarchy that shows the order in which the snapshots where taken.  The snapshot details reveal the configured virtual networks, virtual hard disks and key properties that are associated with that snapshot.

Services

A list of all the core Hyper-V Server services and their state.

Properties

A complete list of all relevant properties helps you quickly understand the configuration of your Hyper-V server.

Events

A list or calendar view of all events relevant to your Hyper-V Server. Events are taken from multiple sources, e.g. the local event log, Hyper-V logs and management systems like Microsoft Operations Manager and Microsoft Service Manager.

This gives you a complete view of what happened to your server.

Vital Signs For Microsoft's Private Cloud

Below you will find the necessary download for getting up and running on Vital Signs for Microsoft's Hyper-V. Our products come in both an ISO image and a self-extracting executable. Download the one of your choice.

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