In this article we’ll go into VDI (virtual desktop interface) monitoring on Windows Server Hyper-V and in particular what and where to monitor and what counters to utilize to determine of your virtual machine is overloaded and what resources are used. This article focuses on measuring networking, storage, and CPU usage.

Windows Hyper-V has three main components, each of which can be monitored; the virtstack, devices, and the hypervisor. When Windows 2008 boots the system it launches the virtstack and hypervisor. The virtstack handles the emulated devices, manages virtual machines, services I/O, etc. The Hypervisor schedules the virtual processors, manages interrupts, services timers, and controls other chip-level functions.
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