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Hyper-V performance monitoring using GFI/Maxfocus/LogicNow
We're using GFI's monitoring agent on a new hyper-v environment - think the current name for this is MaxFocus, but could be wrong. The agent is installed on the hosts as well as all the VMs.
I'm concerned that we're not getting a true picture of what's going on - and wondering if others have used GFI successfully to monitor Hyper-V environments.
On a number of the VMs I was seeing high processor queue depth. However, looking at the processor utilisation only VP 0 on each VM shows any activity - none of the additional virtual processors show any activity. Whereas if I just take a quick look at task manager in the VM I can see activity on all VPs. Would this suggest the monitoring stats are inaccurate?
Can a VM accurately report on its own processor/memory and disk usage - or do we need to be using the VM counters on the host itself?
I'm concerned that we're not getting a true picture of what's going on - and wondering if others have used GFI successfully to monitor Hyper-V environments.
On a number of the VMs I was seeing high processor queue depth. However, looking at the processor utilisation only VP 0 on each VM shows any activity - none of the additional virtual processors show any activity. Whereas if I just take a quick look at task manager in the VM I can see activity on all VPs. Would this suggest the monitoring stats are inaccurate?
Can a VM accurately report on its own processor/memory and disk usage - or do we need to be using the VM counters on the host itself?
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Same here. My boss has been very impatient about it but GFI to me is a slow process and not a rushed up job because it is very easy to set GFI to give out false positive / negatives.
I find the documentation quite comprehensive.
I find the documentation quite comprehensive.
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Do your processor stats on your VMs appear to be accurate?
it is accurate at times but when the backup runs, its goes berserk.
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Just FYI, I've spent quite a bit of time going over settings with one of the sales engineers - who I now go direct to for support issues - and starting to iron out a lot of the issues.
I am same. I just direct issues to our support rep. They are quite clued up however I am not really keen on the general support helpdesk who take ages to reply. We have had a lot of issues rolling out Managed AV
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