How to View Discovered Hypervisors

This lesson provides detail on the Hypervisors menu.

A hypervisor, or virtual machine monitor (VMM), is a piece of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines.

If your scan jobs have the scan option Virtualization Infrastructure selected, then Hypervisor information will be discovered and inventoried and detailed on these menus.

Hypervisors Dashboard

Hypervisors Dashboard

Clicking the Hypervisors menu item displays widgets that contain information about discovered hypervisors in the environment:

  • Virtual Machines by Operating System: Count of virtual machines grouped by Operating System.
  • Running VMs by Hypervisor: Count of running virtual machines grouped by hypervisor.
  • Low Memory Hyper-V Server: Hyper-V servers with RAG gauges indicating possible low memory.
  • Low Memory ESX Server: ESX servers with RAG gauges indicating possible low memory.

Hyper-V, VMware ESX and Red Hat Virtualization

Hyper-V, VMware ESX and Red Hat Virtualization

The Hypervisors node includes scanning and inventory of virtual technologies based on the following:

  • Microsoft Hyper-V - Provides a list of hosts running Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization services
  • VMWare ESX - Provides a list of hosts running VMWare ESX virtualization services
    • ESX Licensing Status - Provides Service Type and Feature State information about specific ESX physical hosts.
    • ESX Migration History - Displays a log of VM guest movement between ESX hosts.
  • Red Hat Linux - Provides a list of discovered RHEL servers running Red Hat virtualization services.

 

IBM PowerVM Virtualization

Asset Vision supports the discovery and collection of data for IBM PowerVM (AIX P Series) virtualization via the IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Virtual I/O Server. The IBM PowerVM data view provides and overview of hosts discovered via PAD Scanning, while the LPAR Resource Allocations is a list of individual LPARs (Logical Partitions) with interesting information about the individual LPARs like:

  • Host server
  • CPU Count Max
  • Memory Size
  • Processing Unit (PU) Min, Max and Entitled
  • Capped or Uncapped CPU Entitlement state
IBM PowerVM Virtualization

Physical to Virtual

Physical to Virtual

The Physical to Virtual mapping section starts with an listing of the ESX Guest VMs grouped by their physical hosts. Other views show a breakdown of this information:

  • Server and Workstation mapping of Hyper-V virtualization resources
  • Server and Workstation mapping of VMWare ESX virtualization resources
  • Server mapping of RHEV virtualization resources