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Configuring Hyper-V Pro tip integration for failover notification

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) provides centralized administration for your Hyper-V virtual machines. Within SCVMM, Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) provides a basic set of monitors that can alert you to situations where you may want or need to modify a virtual machine configuration in order to optimize the host or virtual machine. These alerts, called PRO tips, recommend actions for you to take to return a host, virtual machine, or any other component of a virtual environment to a healthy state.   Double-Take Availability extends the PRO capabilities by providing specific PRO tips for Hyper-V virtual server failover.

In order to receive PRO tips for Hyper-V virtual server failover, your SCVMM machine must be a member of the domain where your Hyper-V host is located, and you must have a machine (same or different than your SCVMM machine) running Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2.

  1. Download the Double-Take Availability Hyper-V Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager from the Vision Solutions support web site or copy it from the product CD. The file is an .xml file that will be imported via the SCOM console.
  2. From the SCOM console, click Administration or select Go, Administration.
  3. Right-click on the Management Packs line item in the left pane and select Import Management Pack.
  4. Click Add and select Add from disk. You can disregard any messages indicating the management pack may have dependencies that cannot be located.
  5. Navigate to the location of the Double-Take Availability Hyper-V Management Pack file that you downloaded, and follow the steps in the Management Pack Import Wizard. See the SCOM documentation for complete details.
  6. Configure your Hyper-V protection for failover monitoring and manual intervention.

  7. In the event your Hyper-V source fails, you will receive a PRO tip alert.

  8. You can Implement the Pro tip to start failover or you can Dismiss it if you do not want to failover.