ADR 0023 — Hyper-V Azure Monitor through Arc-enabled SCVMM
Status: Proposed
Date: 2026-08-12
Decision gate: Arc-enabled SCVMM inventory and telemetry proof-of-concept research
Context
Azure Arc-enabled SCVMM can project private-cloud inventory into Azure and can support guest management for eligible virtual machines. That does not by itself establish that Azure Monitor Health Models can observe enough supported Hyper-V infrastructure signals to deliver a useful, supportable product.
The project needs evidence for the ARM resource graph, guest-management path, telemetry sources, Health Models entity design, identity and RBAC model, network requirements, preview constraints, latency, cost, scale, and lifecycle operations.
Proposed decision
Keep the Hyper-V Azure Monitor Feature in the conditional future roadmap. Select go, defer, or no-go only after the two spikes complete and the evidence is reviewed.
A go decision must define:
- mandatory SCVMM, Arc Resource Bridge, Connected Machine agent, AMA, and DCR prerequisites;
- supported host, cluster, network, storage, and VM entity coverage;
- the minimum viable signal catalog and known parity gaps with SCOM;
- supported Azure regions and Health Models API versions;
- identity, RBAC, network, scale, cost, upgrade, and removal contracts; and
- fault-injection and release validation gates.
Current constraints
- Azure Arc-enabled SCVMM inventory and Azure Arc-enabled Servers guest management are distinct capabilities and must be evaluated separately.
- Undocumented APIs or unsupported scraping are not acceptable product dependencies.
- No implementation story may become active before this ADR is accepted with a go decision.