This blog will now focus on advanced monitoring of heterogeneous data centers. This includes traditional physical servers, both Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms. It will also include the virtual space, both Hyper-V as well as VMware. Lastly, it absolutely will include networking components!
Once you complete the configuration for integration of SCVMM and OpsMgr, the first thing that jumps put is a set of new views: Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Views. What i quickly noticed is it is not that easy to readily identify and distinguish a server in OpsMgr that is a guest on a host or parked in the library. So I whipped up two simple views.
The first view shows all servers stored in the VMM library. It is a state view. When selecting a target type, select ‘Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Managed Virtual Machine’. There are two entries. Select the one whose description is ‘This virtual machine is stored in a library’. Of course you can further define the view based on any additional criteria. Also, be sure to personalize the view and definitely select ‘Name’ at the very minimum. You now have an OpsMgr view which shows all servers / templates stored in the VMM Library.
The second view shows all servers monitored by OpsMgr that are guests on host systems. It is a state view. When selecting a target type, select ‘Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Managed Virtual Machine’. There are two entries. Select the one whose description is ‘This virtual machine is hosted by a host. You can further define the view based on any additional criteria. You now have an OpsMgr view which shows all servers which are virtualized.
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