Appendix: Reports

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Applies To: Operations Manager 2007, Operations Manager 2007 R2, Virtual Machine Manager

The VMM 2008 Management Pack contains the following reports:

  • Virtualization Candidates—Helps identify physical computers that are good candidates for conversion to virtual machines. You can use the Virtualization Candidates report to identify little-used servers and display average values for a set of commonly requested performance counters for CPU, memory, and disk usage, along with hardware configurations, including processor speed, number of processors, and total RAM. You can limit the report to computers that meet specified CPU and RAM requirements, and you can sort the results by selected columns in the report.

  • Virtual Machine Allocation—Provides information that you can use to calculate chargeback to cost centers for virtual machines. You can set up this report by Cost Center grouping to summarize CPU, memory, disk, and network usage for virtual machines within your cost centers. The cost center is a property of virtual machines, which can also be set on virtual machine templates.

  • Virtual Machine Utilization—Provides information about resource utilization by your virtual machines. For a specified time period, this report shows average usage and total or maximum values for virtual machine processors, memory, and disk space. You can use this report to identify under-utilized or over-utilized virtual machines and determine whether any changes are necessary.

  • Host Utilization—For the specified time period and host group, this report shows the number of virtual machines that are running on each host and the average usage and total or maximum values for host processors, memory, and disk space. You can double-click a host in the list to open a Host Performance report with details about resource usage on the host.

  • Host Utilization Growth—Shows the percentage of change in resource usage and the number of virtual machines that are running on selected hosts during a specified time period.

After importing the management pack, allow up to 30 minutes for reports to appear in the Reporting pane of the Operations console.

These reports also are available in Reporting view of the VMM Administrator Console. However, before you can view and use the reports in the Administrator Console, you must set up reporting in VMM. For more information, see Setting Up Reporting in VMM (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130662).