Planning for Monitoring and Reporting
Reporting in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is provided through the Server Virtualization Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007. Before you can view and use reports in VMM, you must install and configure Operations Manager 2007, deploy the Server Virtualization Management Pack, and perform additional configuration steps. For more information, see the "Configuring Reporting" topic (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=104270). Reports are generated by Operations Manager 2007, but they can be opened in Reporting view of the VMM Administrator Console.
Important
If you plan to use the monitoring and reporting feature of VMM, you must install a VMM Administrator Console on the same computer as the VMM server to enable Operations Manager 2007 administrators to perform tasks on hosts and virtual machines from within the Server Virtualization Management Pack. When you install the VMM Administrator Console, Setup also installs Windows PowerShell — Virtual Machine Manager command shell, which is required to perform these tasks.
You must also install an Operations Manager 2007 agent on each host that you want to monitor.
All reports in the VMM Administrator Console present information from the view of the host. If you want to monitor virtual machines, you can install an Operations Manager 2007 agent on the virtual machines, but you will need to use Operations Manager 2007 to view those reports.
See Also
Concepts
Planning for VMM Components and Features
Planning for VMM Deployment