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Lenovo Hardware PRO Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Lenovo Hardware PRO Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager provides performance and resource-optimization tips (PRO tips) that describe the hardware health state, alerts and virtual machine migration recommendations for the physical systems hosting Hyper-V and Virtual Server.

Lenovo Hardware PRO Pack also provides monitoring and alert information for System x rack servers and BladeCenter blade servers that are installed with either IBM Director Core Services or Director Agent.

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager overview​

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager is a comprehensive solution for virtualized data centers. Lenovo Hardware PRO Pack combines the hardware health knowledge and monitoring capabilities that are part of Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) with the management services for physical and virtual machines provided by System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). This solution gives administrators an extensible framework for monitoring the physical resources within their virtual environments.

SCOM and SCVMM servers maintain continuous communication through their respective agents to provide comprehensive health and performance information about the infrastructures they manage. While SCOM is designed to collect, monitor, and assist you in resolving health or performance problems on physical resources, SCVMM is designed to manage the virtualized workloads that can be affected by these types of condition changes.

Alerts are displayed through the SCVMM console in the form of performance and resource-optimization tips (PRO) tips. A PRO tip is a recommendation that can assist you with placing, migrating, or reconfiguring applications, hardware, and virtual machines. These recommendations can then be implemented manually to return the workload to an optimal state.

Key features​

Lenovo Hardware PRO Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager is a fee-based product component of the Lenovo XClarity Administrator.

The key features of Lenovo Hardware PRO Pack include:
  • Detailed system health information for physical servers hosting virtual machines while managing Hyper-V or Virtual Server environments
  • Comprehensive health state monitoring of physical processors, memory, hard disks, fans, power supplies, temperature, and voltage for System x and Blade x86 and x64 virtual host servers
  • Advisory PRO tips that indicate existing or potential hardware problems which require Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) administrative operations
  • Automated VM Migration support based on hardware failures or exceptions to power consumption thresholds for uEFI/IMM System x and BladeCenter blade servers running Windows 2008 R2, Hyper-V or Virtual Server
    Note
    Automated VM Migration support based on power consumption threshold exceptions is supported only on uEFI/IMM System x and BladeCenter blade servers and running Windows 2008 R2 and IBM Systems Director Platform Agent v6.2.1 and later versions.
  • BladeCenter and Blade hardware health correlation and event propagation
Important
To use Lenovo Hardware PRO Pack, you must purchase and implement an activation license. You can purchase an activation license by contacting either your Lenovo representative or Lenovo Business Partner.