Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide

Hyper-V Virtual Machine Metrics

Hosting virtual machines on our Hyper-V servers consumes important resources, which must be paid for. There are many ideas about how to recover the initial investment in infrastructure and ongoing running costs, a topic better addressed in a different context.

Every virtual machine exposes different load characteristics based on the function and its workload, resulting in a random utilization of our valuable resources. In Windows 2012, Microsoft has enabled us to measure the utilization of these resources so we can use more accurate information in calculating the costs associated with the virtual machines.

This functionally is not enabled by default on our Hyper-V servers, but once active, the following metrics ...