How do I use perfmon to collect data for memory (RAM) and processor usage on Hyper-v virtual machines?

Question

How do I use perfmon to collect data for memory (RAM) and processor usage on Hyper-v virtual machines?

My VMs are running Citrix XenServer on windows server 2008 r2 and I am trying to check on the load before adding more users.

thank you

Answer 1

Hi,

You can set Performance monitor locally on the VM that you want to monitor and use the memory, disk, processor, process, pagefile, etc counters on local VM.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768535(BTS.10).aspx 

Sanket

Answer 2

You should run Perfmon on the host Hyper-V machine to understand the load on the hardware, this is available natively in Windows.

If you have a specific VM with performance issues you should compare the host perfmon results with the VM perfmon results.

Take a look here for further guidance on Perfmon analysis: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1513.the-microsoft-pfe-performance-guide-perfguide-start-here.aspx