Applying the Microsoft Hyper-V Policy

Last updated on 2020-01-17 12:14:55

The Hyper-V service module includes the following policies:

VMware ESXi Host Policy Module for Service Module (Default)
VMware ESXi Host Policy Module for Service Module (Optional 1)
VMware ESXi Host Policy Module for Service Module (Optional 2)

This policy module monitors performance counters and Windows Events on VM hosts, and contains hundreds of alert configurations to alert on the following types of events:

guest shutdown
a guest consuming excessive memory, potentially causing a performance breakdown
failure during snapshot creation.

For information on viewing Hyper-V alerts, see Viewing Hyper-V Alerts.

You can access this policy module from within the service module itself.

In Service Center, click Configuration > Service Modules.
In the list of service modules, click Hyper-V.
To apply monitoring to the Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V Technology policy module:
- To add the service module to a service, under Service Membership, click Add. Select the service, and click Add.
- To apply the policy module to a group, click Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V Technology Policy Module for Service Module. Click the Manual Application tab, and then under Applied Groups, click Add. Filter on the Group Type, if desired. Select the group and click Add.
- To apply the policy module to a device, click Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V Technology Policy Module for Service Module. Click the Manual Application tab, and then under Applied Devices, click Add. Filter the list of devices. Select the device and click Add.

When applying the policy module, you must ensure that the devices to which it is applied, whether through policy sets, groups, or manually added devices, are valid host devices. If the policy module is applied to non-host devices, then some of the monitors will collect data for these devices and present it in the service module dashboards. For example, memory available, memory page faults, etc.