This document discusses integrating Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) with Operations Manager (OM) for monitoring. It provides an overview of VMM architecture and components that should be monitored, such as the VMM server, hosts, storage, and fabrics. It describes prerequisites for integration like installing OM agents and management packs. Demo sections show configuring the integration in OM and using dashboards, alerts, and reports. The key takeaway is that monitoring empowers support staff by reducing troubleshooting time and complexity.

1. ROME
Integrating and Monitoring Virtual
Machine Manger with Operations
Manager
Ronnie Isherwood
@virtualfat

2. • Who?
• R I Technology
• Infrastructure consulting and support, virtualization and system
management. Bespoke training.
• Content Developer, Technical Reviewer
• Microsoft Learning, Server Virtualization and System Center
• User Group and Event monkey (15+ Events).
• System Center, Windows Server, RDS, Hyper-V, Cybercrime and other fun
stuff
• Sometimes blog, sometimes tweet
Ronnie Isherwood
@virtualfat

3. Session Objectives
• Why monitor? What to monitor?
• VMM Architecture Overview
• Integrating System Center
• Management Packs
• Alerting
• Reporting

4. Why Monitor?
Maintain healthy systems
Offer businesses consistent performance
Keep people informed of issues
Meet Service Level agreements
Collect performance and security data
Stop things falling over!

5. What to Monitor?
VMM Management Infrastructure
Virtual Machine Manager Server
Database Server
App Controller (Self Service Portal)
Libraries
Consoles

6. What to Monitor?
Hosts
Hardware
Window Server Hyper-V
Hyper-V Replica
Other
File Servers, AD DS, WSUS, DHCP, WDS

8. What else to Monitor?
Fabric
Storage
Networking
Clouds
Capacity

9. VMM Console
DEMO

10. How to get setup - prerequisites
• Deploy SCOM 2012 R2 Console (on VMM Server)
• Install the Report Viewer Controls on VMM Server. requires
Microsoft System CLR Types for SQL Server 2012
• Provide account with admin access to SCOM
• Provide account with admin access to VMM
• Install Management Packs
• Deploy Operation Manager Agent to VMM Server,
Database Server and Hosts.
• Windows firewall for SCOM agent, port 5723

11. How to get setup - integration

12. How to get setup - integration

13. How to get setup - integration

15. VMM Post Integration
DEMO

16. Management Packs
Management packs are generally vendor
authored and can include:
• Views, Dashboards
• Product Knowledge
• Reports
• Tasks

17. Management Packs
Management packs are simple to import and
should their rules can be overridden to suite
your requirements.
Always copy a management pack and make the
changes to the copy.

18. Management Packs & Dashboards
DEMO

19. Monitoring - Alerting
• Who to alert? – Who else?
– When? Business hours, non business hours.
– What channels? SMS, Email?
• Who owns the alerting process?
– How do we confirm its working?
– How do we ensure alert action?

20. Reporting
• Out of the box
• Scheduling
• Forecasting

21. Reporting
DEMO

22. • Microsoft Advanced Server 70-414
• Microsoft Server Virtualization 70-409
• Technet forums
• Cloud OS Community
• System Center Central

24. Troubleshooting
• Remove-SCOpsMgrConnection –force
• ResetSRS.exe MSSQLSERVER

25. Key take-away
Empower the support, service and operational
staff by reducing troubleshooting time and
complexity. Give them the tools and knowledge.
And they will get you beer!!!
Maybe…
Ronnie Isherwood
@virtualfat
www.jwug.co.uk www.virtualfat.com

26. Thank you
Questions?
See you in Brussels
Ronnie Isherwood
@virtualfat
www.jwug.co.uk www.virtualfat.com

27. Some links
Management Packs (just a few of note)
System Center Management Pack for Service Provider Foundation (SPF)
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40867
Further reading (how to do etc)
Hyper-V Replica
http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2013/09/13/monitoring-hyper-v-replica-using-system-center-operations-manager.aspx
IAAS Usage and metering
http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/09/27/configuring-vmm-and-om-for-iaas-usage-and-metering.aspx