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My Daily Hyper-V Status Email–Part 5 of 5

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After displaying event logs, virtual machine health and storage health – the last thing that is included in my daily status email is usage data.

For this I take advantage of the built in metrics functionality that is part of Hyper-V.

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Looking at this report – I realize I should probably filter our replicated virtual machines (those are all the entries with zero data).  I guess I will have to fix that at some point in the future.  Regardless – here is the code that I use today:

 # VM Metrics
 $message = $message + "<style>TH{background-color:blue}TR{background-color:$($tableColor)}</style>"
 $message = $message + "<B>Virtual Machine Utilization Report</B> <br> <br> "
  
 $message = $message +  "CPU utilization data: <br>" + ($metricsData | `
                                                            select-object @{Expression={$_.VMName};Label="Virtual Machine"}, `
                                                                          @{Expression={$_.AvgCPU};Label="Average CPU Utilization (MHz)"} `
                                                                          | ConvertTo-HTML -Fragment) `
                                                                          +" <br>"
 $message = $message + "Memory utilization data: <br>" + ($metricsData | `
                                                              select-object @{Expression={$_.VMName};Label="Virtual Machine"}, `
                                                                            @{Expression={$_.AvgRAM};Label="Average Memory (MB)"}, `
                                                                            @{Expression={$_.MinRAM};Label="Minimum Memory (MB)"}, `
                                                                            @{Expression={$_.MaxRAM};Label="Maximum Memory (MB)"} `
                                                                            | ConvertTo-HTML -Fragment) `
                                                                            +" <br>"
 $message = $message + "Network utilization data: <br>" + ($metricsData | `
                                                              select-object @{Expression={$_.VMName};Label="Virtual Machine"}, `
                                                                            @{Expression={"{0:N2}" -f (($_.NetworkMeteredTrafficReport | where-object {($_.Direction -eq "Inbound")}`
                                                                               | measure-object TotalTraffic -sum).sum / 1024)};Label="Inbound Network Traffic (GB)"}, `
                                                                            @{Expression={"{0:N2}" -f (($_.NetworkMeteredTrafficReport | where-object {($_.Direction -eq "Outbound")} `
                                                                               | measure-object TotalTraffic -sum).sum / 1024)};Label="Outbound Network Traffic (GB)"} `
                                                                            | ConvertTo-HTML -Fragment) `
                                                                            +" <br>"
 $message = $message + "Disk utilization data: <br>" + ($metricsData | `
                                                            select-object @{Expression={$_.VMName};Label="Virtual Machine"}, `
                                                                          @{Expression={"{0:N2}" -f ($_.TotalDisk / 1024)};Label="Disk Space Used (GB)"} `
                                                                          | ConvertTo-HTML -Fragment) `
                                                                          +" <br>"
 $message = $message + "Metering Duration data: <br>" + ($metricsData | `
                                                             select-object @{Expression={$_.VMName};Label="Virtual Machine"}, `
                                                                           @{Expression={$_.MeteringDuration};Label="Metering data duration"} `
                                                                           | ConvertTo-HTML -Fragment) `
                                                                           +" <br>"
  
 # Reset metrics
 get-vm | Reset-VMResourceMetering
 get-vm | Enable-VMResourceMetering

Notes about this code:

  • $metricsData contains the output of “get-vm | measure-vm” (this is mentioned in my first post in this series).  The reason why I do this is because measure-vm is a heavy command (it uses a chunk of CPU and disk) so I only want to run it once.
  • Once again - I use raw HTML to set the color of the table headers. 
  • Again - I run the output of these commands through Select-Object with the use of the “Expression” option to set column labels appropriately.
  • Again - I use ConvertTo-HTML –Fragment to get a nice HTML table outputted.
  • At the end of this code I reset the counters, and enable metering on all virtual machines.  I do this so that if I add any new virtual machines, they get picked up automatically.

Cheers,

Ben

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 23, 2014
    Thank you dear Ben, I have a quick question please, I noticed that the "Metering Duration Data counters" are empty all the time, however the Resource Metering is enabled. What is the reason? Best regards,

  • Anonymous
    April 01, 2014
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