Configuring Resource Metering

- The next topic to be discussed is resource metering.…Resource metering is actually a PowerShell based feature,…which means you have to run resource metering…from the PowerShell or the command line.…There's not a graphical way to do…resource metering in Hyper-V Manager.…Resource metering is also new to Server 2012 Hyper-V,…a Hyper-V previous to Server 2012 did not have…this resource metering capability.…What resource metering does is it allows…administrators to document VM resource usage.…

There's several reasons why you…might want to document your resources.…One, it will allow you to do an internal account…to control your expenses, based on your resources…being used in your virtual network.…You can also use resource metering to bill customers…based on how much resources they are using…if your business involves allowing…virtual resources to be used by customers.…One of the really nice things about resource metering,…the statistics stay consistent between host systems…if you use live migration to move the…virtual hard disk files between one VM to another.…