{"id":4459,"date":"2012-12-17T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/12\/17\/powertip-collect-vm-performance-by-using-powershell\/"},"modified":"2012-12-17T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-collect-vm-performance-by-using-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-collect-vm-performance-by-using-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Collect VM Performance by Using PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 and Windows Server&nbsp;2012 to collect virtual machine performance information.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How do I collect performance data on a daily basis for a specific Hyper-V virtual machine?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Charlotte Windows PowerShell User group member Brian Wilhite says: There are two cmdlets that we&rsquo;ll use first, enable monitoring, or metering as the cmdlet states, and then the actual data collection cmdlet after metering is enabled. To enable monitoring of the virtual machine, you&rsquo;ll need to use&nbsp;<strong>Enable-VMResourceMetering<\/strong>, and then you&rsquo;ll need to capture the data by running&nbsp;<strong>Measure-VM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">Enable-VMResourceMetering -VMName VSVR01<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">Measure-VM -VMName VSVR01<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">You can also pipe this to&nbsp;<strong>Export-Csv<\/strong>&nbsp;by using the&nbsp;<strong>Append<\/strong>&nbsp;parameter to collect the data for trending purposes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">Measure-VM -VMName VSVR01 | Export-Csv -Path C:\\PerfData\\VSVR01.csv &ndash;Append<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Finally, you can set up a scheduled task to run the above two lines on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 and Windows Server&nbsp;2012 to collect virtual machine performance information. &nbsp;How do I collect performance data on a daily basis for a specific Hyper-V virtual machine? &nbsp;Charlotte Windows PowerShell User group member Brian Wilhite says: There are two cmdlets that we&rsquo;ll use first, enable monitoring, or metering as the cmdlet states, and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[327,56,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-brian-wilhite","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0 and Windows Server&nbsp;2012 to collect virtual machine performance information. &nbsp;How do I collect performance data on a daily basis for a specific Hyper-V virtual machine? &nbsp;Charlotte Windows PowerShell User group member Brian Wilhite says: There are two cmdlets that we&rsquo;ll use first, enable monitoring, or metering as the cmdlet states, and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}