In Chapter 6, Managing Performance, you looked at performance counters and the Performance Logs and Alerts (PLA) feature of Windows Server 2016.
With PLA, applications, services, drivers, and OS components can expose operation data via counter sets and counters. A counter is a measurement of one specific value, such as the %ProcessorTime counter that measures how much CPU is being used at any given moment. Counters are grouped for convenience into counter sets. The Processor counter set contains the %ProcessorTime counter.
In this recipe, you examine some of the wide range of Hyper-V performance counters available to you. PLA in general, and Hyper-V in particular, expose a very large number of counter sets containing a wide range which Hyper-V exposes. It is very easy to get excited about the wealth of counters available. But most of the information provided is probably of little use to most IT professionals managing Hyper-V hosts and VMs.
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