Reports in the Virtual Server 2005 R2 Management Pack

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09/11/2008

Table 5 describes the reports that the Virtual Server 2005 R2 Management Pack provides. The Virtualization Candidates report and the Performance History report are new.

Usage notes:

Three reports—Virtual Machine Details, Virtualization Candidates, and Performance History—require that a MOM agent be installed on each guest operating system.
For information about customizing Management Pack reports, see Help and Support for Reporting Services Report Manager, which is available from SQL Server Report Manager.

Table 5 Management Pack Reports

Report	Description
Virtualization Candidates	(New in R2) To help identify physical computers that are good virtualization candidates, the Virtualization Candidates report displays average values for a set of commonly requested performance counters for CPU, memory, and disk usage, along with the computer’s hardware configuration (processor speed, number of processors, and total RAM). The processor count includes Hyperthreading processors. 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. You can click a server in the list to display a Performance History report that presents CPU usage, available memory, disk performance, and network usage for the server over the past week. For information about report requirements, see the description at the top of the report. Usage notes: This report is data-intensive, and processing time varies depending on factors such as the size of the MOM database, the time period reported on, and the number of servers reported on. If you see a report processing error that reads “Cannot read the next data row for the data set … Operation cancelled by user,” the processing has exceeded the report execution timeout in SQL Server Reporting Services. To allow more processing time, change the Report Processing Timeout setting in the execution properties for the report. To avoid waiting for a report, you can run this report during off-peak hours. To do this, schedule an execution snapshot from which the report can be rendered. The execution snapshot is refreshed on the schedule that you designate. For more information, see the Execution properties page topic in Help and Support for Reporting Services Report Manager. It is also recommended that you limit the time period for this report.
All Virtual Servers	This report can help you quickly identify underused and highly used virtual machine hosts. Graphs at the top of the report identify the five hosts with the most available CPU, memory, and disk space and the five hosts with the least available CPU, memory, and disk space. A listing of virtual machine hosts and the virtual machines they are hosting follows. For virtual machine hosts, the listing includes the name of the physical computer, uptime, the IP address and port used for the VMRC client, the number of virtual machines, and the location of the Virtual Server configuration. For each virtual machine, the listing includes the NetBIOS name, operating system, state, location of virtual hard disks (.vhd files), memory in use, and version of Virtual Machine Additions. After selecting the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 computer group, you can optionally select a specific virtual machine host.
Virtual Machine Details	For each virtual machine, this report displays the machine’s NetBIOS name, virtual machine name, network configuration, and total disk space used (with specific information about the save state size, undo disk size, and maximum virtual hard disk size). When you order a report, you can opt to sort the entries by any column label in the report. You can generate a report for all virtual machines running on all virtual machine hosts in the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 computer group, or you can limit the report to the virtual machines on a single host. Note To see the NetBIOS name and network card for each virtual machine, you must have deployed the Microsoft® Windows Servers Base Operating System Management Pack.
Performance History	(New in R2) Displays trends in CPU usage, available memory, physical disk performance, and network traffic during a specified time period for one or all virtual machines on a virtual machine host. For information about report requirements, see the description at the top of the report.
Performance History Virtual Machine-CPU Utilization	Displays a graph showing CPU utilization for the selected virtual machine during a specified time period. The report displays CPU utilization for the virtual machine selected in the Instance field. After choosing the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 computer group, you can optionally select a virtual machine host (in the Computer field) to display only virtual machines on that host.
Performance History Virtual Machine-Disk Space Used (Bytes)	Displays a graph showing disk space used by a selected virtual machine during a specified time period. The report displays disk space used by the virtual machine selected in the Instance field. After choosing the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 computer group, you can optionally select a virtual machine host (in the Computer field) to display only virtual machines on that host.
Performance History Virtual Machine-RAM Used (Bytes)	Displays a graph showing RAM usage on a selected virtual machine during a specified time period. The report displays RAM used by the virtual machine selected in the Instance field. After choosing the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 computer group, you can optionally select a virtual machine host (in the Computer field) to display only virtual machines on that host.