Virtual Machines page in the Hyper-V Overview view

The Hyper-V Virtual Machines view provides an overview of the available virtual machines in the Hyper-V virtualization environment, including details about vCPU density, CPU and memory utilization, memory configured, and more.

The following figure shows the Hyper-V Virtual Machines view:

An example of a Hyper-V Virtual Machines view

To access the Hyper-V Virtual Machines view in the TrueSight console, in the navigation panel, select > Capacity Views > Virtualization > Hyper-V > Overview > Virtual Machines tab.

Viewing the Hyper-V VMs table

The Hyper-V VMs table lists all available Virtual Machines.

Each row corresponds to a Hyper-V virtual machine and shows the following information:

Viewing details page for a Hyper-V virtual machine

To view the details page for a particular Hyper-V Virtual Machine, click the Virtual machine name in the Hyper-V column in the view table.

The details page for each virtual machine displays the following information:

• General details: General virtual machine details, such as name, type, description are displayed at the top of the page. 
• Related Information panel: Clicking the links in the Related Information panel displays additional details related to the selected VM.
  • Virtual Node: Clicking on the link takes you to the server details page for the selected virtual node entity.
    About virtual node

    For managing the capacity of a virtualized system running inside an individual VM, you need the inside view of the performance of a VM. Such VM systems where data is collected from inside the OS are called Virtual Nodes. Virtual Node contains additional metrics that are useful for more detailed analysis of the capacity and performance of the VM.
    This link is enabled when the administrator has completed the following tasks:
    • Collected the virtual node data:
       1. Install a Capacity Agent inside the VM from which you want to collect metrics.
       2. Configure the Gateway Server and Capacity Agent to initiate data collection.
       3. Configure and use the out-of-the-box BMC-TrueSight-Capacity-Optimization-Gateway-VIS-files-parser to collect the required metrics from the VM.
    • Installed the Servers view and granted the necessary permissions to access these views.
  • Thresholds: Clicking on the link cross-launches to the Capacity Optimization console and take you to the Thresholds page for the selected VM. For more information, see Configuring-and-managing-thresholds-for-metrics-and-indicators.
• Tags panel: Displays tags, if any, that are associated with the cluster.  For more information, see Working-with-tag-filters. 

• Summary information: The Summary tab, that is displayed by default, displays performance details for the selected virtual machine in a horizontal summary table, as well as charts.

  Core metrics for the selected entity are displayed as analysis charts, depending on available data. At the bottom of each chart is a link that takes you to the Data Explorer view for the specific resource type, and displays charts and information for a larger set of metrics. For more information, see Virtual-Machine-page-in-the-Hyper-V-Data-Explorer-view.

  You can download charts, annotate them, print them, and so on. For more information, see Managing-charts.

• Configuration Details: The Configuration Details tab displays the configuration metrics for the virtual machine.

An example of a Hyper-V VM details page

Using data filters and other controls in tables

You can sort and filter the information that is displayed in tables to suit your need. For instance, you can show or hide columns, filter tables on particular domains, and so on. For more information, see Sorting-a-table-in-the-TrueSight-console

You can choose to display data of a particular host in the virtual machines by using the host filter option. For more information, see Using-filtering-options-in-the-TrueSight-console.