Report Descriptions
The following reports are available in Virtual Machine Manager:
- 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 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 running on selected hosts during a specified time period.
These reports are generated by System Center Operations Manager 2007 and are available only when the Server Virtualization Management Pack has been deployed and reporting has been enabled in Virtual Machine Manager. For an overview of the reporting setup, see Setting Up Reporting.
See Also
Concepts
About the Server Virtualization Management Pack
How to Enable Reporting in Virtual Machine Manager
Setting Up Reporting