Monitor bandwidth utilization for Hyper-V's Virtual Machines

Hi,
I'm wondering, if SCOM is capable to monitor incoming & outgoing traffic (current and total over time) of VMs in Hyper-V?
Tried to search about it, and found only 3rd party tools or the monitoring is only available for Router, not VMs.
Thanks.

Hi Andre,
Also you can use performance monitor to monitor the VM's bandwidth through counter "Bytes Received/sec" and "Bytes Sent/sec" under Hyper-v virtual network adapter :
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