To be able to monitor your organization’s virtualization layer when you are using a System Center 2012 and System Center 2012 R2 managed private cloud, you need to integrate Operations Manager with Virtual Machine Manager.
Integrating Operations Manager with Virtual Machine Manager provides you with the following dashboards and views as shown in Figure 1:
FIGURE 1 Virtualization dashboards and views
- Cloud Health
- Application Health
- Application Hosts Health
- Host Cluster Health
- Host Health
- IP Address Pool Health
- Library Server Health
- Load Balancer Health
- MAC Address Pool Health
- Service Health
- Storage Pool Health
- User Role Health
- Virtual Machine Health
- Virtual Machine Manager Server Health
The Virtual Machine Health dashboard is shown in Figure 2.
FIGURE 2 Virtual Machine Health
Integrating Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager also allows you to view the following performance information:
- Cloud Performance
- Host Cluster Performance
- Host Performance
- IP Address Pool Performance
- MAC Address Pool Performance
- Service Performance
- Storage Pool Performance
- Virtual Machine Performance
Figure 3 shows the Virtual Machine Performance view.
FIGURE 3 Virtual Machine Performance
To integrate Operations Manager with Virtual Machine Manager, you need to configure the connector between VMM and Operations Manager. Prior to configuring the connection between VMM and Operations Manager, you need to ensure you perform the following prerequisite configuration tasks:
- Install the Operations Manager console on the VMM server.
- Install the following Operations Manager management packs on the Operations Manager server:
- SQL Server Core Library version 6.0.5000.0 or later
- Windows Server Internet Information Services Library version 6.0.5000.0 or later
- Windows Server Internet Information Services 2003 version 6.0.5000.0 or later
- Windows Server 2008 Internet Information Services 7 version 6.0.6539.0 or later
To link VMM and Operations Manager, you need the credentials of an account that is a member of the Operations Manager Administrators user role, and the credentials of an account that is a member of the VMM Administrator user role. These can be separate accounts or the same accounts. To configure a connection between VMM and Operations Manager, perform the following steps:
1. In the Settings workspace of the VMM console, click System Center Settings, and then click Operations Manager Server.
2. On the ribbon, click Properties.
3. On the Connection To.. page of the Add Operations Manager Wizard, type the name of the Operations Manager server and a Run As account that has the appropriate permissions, as shown in Figure 4.
FIGURE 4 Connection to Operations Manager
4. On the Connection To VMM page, specify the credentials of the account that will be used by Operations Manger to connect to the VMM server.
5. Complete the wizard.
Configuring the connection between Operations Manager and VMM automatically loads the Management Packs, shown in Figure 5, which allow you to monitor the health and performance of your private cloud’s virtualization layer.
FIGURE 5 Management Packs
