Monitor the virtualization layer

Once you have configured Operations Manager to collect data from virtualization hosts and virtual machines, you need to configure how Operations Manager displays and interprets that data. This means configuring notifications and alerts through to analyzing overall virtualization layer health. When integrated with Virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager provides a number of dashboards and views that allow you to monitor the functionality and performance of your organization’s fabric.

This section covers the following topics:

  Integrating Operations Manager with Virtual Machine Manager

  Using the Fabric Health Dashboard

  Understanding the Fabric Monitoring Diagram view

Summary

• To integrate Operations Manager with Virtual Machine Manager, you need to install the Operations Manager console on the VMM server. You also need to ensure that the appropriate SQL Server and Internet Information Services management packs are installed.
• The Fabric Health Dashboard allows you to view detailed information about the health of VMM private clouds and infrastructure.
• The Fabric Monitoring Diagram view allows you to view the health state of the entire virtualization fabric managed by VMM.