User's Manual

Introduction 7
What is a PRO Tip?
PRO (Performance and Resource Optimization) Tip is a feature that enables
monitoring of your virtualized infrastructure and alerting when there is an
opportunity to optimize the usage of these resources. A PRO Tip window
contains the description of the event that produced the PRO Tip and the
suggested remedial action. This feature allows you to perform a load-balance
of virtual machines between physical hosts when specific threshold values are
reached. Alternatively, you can migrate virtual machines when a hardware
failure is detected.
The PRO Tip window in the SCVMM Administrator console enables you to
view active PRO Tips for the host groups. The Operations Manager console
displays the corresponding alerts as well, to ensure a consistent monitoring
experience.
You can implement the recommended action mentioned in the PRO Tip
manually. You can also configure PRO tip to implement the recommended
action automatically.
Feature Highlights
Dell PRO Pack:
• Performs PRO-management of Dell PowerEdge™ systems running
Microsoft Hyper-V™ platforms, by continually monitoring the health of
your physical and virtual infrastructure.
• Works with Operations Manager and SCVMM to detect events such as
loss of power supply redundancy, higher temperature than threshold
values, system storage battery error, virtual disk failure, and so on. For more
information on events supported by Dell PRO Pack, see "Alert Cause and
Recovery Action".
• Generates PRO Tip when the monitored hardware moves to an unhealthy
state.
• Minimizes downtime by implementing the remedial action provided on
PRO Tips. The two remedial actions are:
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Restrict: In this mode, it is recommended that the server should be
temporarily unavailable for placement of new virtual machines until
the maintenance tasks have been completed.
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