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Well there are going to be three management servers. Won’t they just simply share roles between them? I could add another MS in there and then get agents to report to both Management Servers (Yes your...
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1000 agents, 1000 network devices and APM on one MS? (since you specify failover i guess all will be reporting to RMS emulator) Which management packs are you planning to run?
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By default ACS only keeps 14 days worth of data, you will need to dump your data to another DB Server that has a truck load of storage for long term storage. You will probably need to invest in...
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I’ll second the recommendation for clustering the operational and DW SQL instances for the reasons Wilson provided. I’m not sure I’d try to add the ACS database to that cluster though. With the...
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I am personally biased against using VM’s for SQL when it comes to SCOM. SCOM requires so much CPU horsepower and IOPS performance that I would never consider virtualize by backend SQL servers.
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Ah right, yes we have to keep ACS for 12 months due to Auditing purposes. Regarding clustering I don’t need to do that as infrastructure already sits on a clustered Virtual infrastructure. Is there...
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I’m just asking to see if you actually have business use-cases for ACS data or if you were perhaps just throwing it in there.
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Morning Wilson, Forgive me if this is a noob question but why do you ask if we are actually going to use ACS? I’ve put in the design that we will be using the ACS collector and also an ACS database....
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Cluster your 2 SCOM database servers into an active-active cluster. That way you can fail one database over to one node while doing maintenance on the other one. Make sure the storage you are using...
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Please could you give me your opinion on my design for SCOM 2012 R2. I’ve never done this before but done quite a bit of reading up on it. I’m hoping this should be enough to manage 1000 clients,...
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