Monitoring Hyper-V utilization and performance

This report gathers information about a Hyper-V server and the VMs running on that server.

Getting ready

You run this recipe on the HV1 Hyper-V host.

How to do it...

1. Create a basic report hash table:

   $ReportHT = [Ordered] @{}

2. Get the host details and add them to the report hash table:

   $HostDetails = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_ComputerSystem
   $ReportHT.HostName = $HostDetails.Name
   $ReportHT.Maker = $HostDetails.Manufacturer
   $ReportHT.Model = $HostDetails.Model

3. Add the PowerShell version information to the report hash table:

   $ReportHT.PSVersion = $PSVersionTable.PSVersion.ToString()

4. Add OS information to the report hash table:

   $OS = Get-CimInstance -Class Win32_OperatingSystem
   $ReportHT.OSEdition    = $OS.Caption
   $ReportHT.OSArch       = $OS.OSArchitecture
   $ReportHT.OSLang       = $OS.OSLanguage
   $ReportHT.LastBootTime = $os.LastBootUpTime
   $Now = Get-Date
   $UTD = [float] ("{0:n3}" -f (($Now –
                                $OS.LastBootUpTime...