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LiveMeeting: Should I upgrade to SCOM 2012. Dieter Wijckmans. About me. Dieter Wijckmans Member of SCUG Belgium ( http://www.scug.be ) System Center Technical consultant for I novativ Belgium Focus on System Center Operations Manager and System Center Service Manager
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LiveMeeting: Should I upgrade to SCOM 2012 Dieter Wijckmans
About me • Dieter Wijckmans • Member of SCUG Belgium (http://www.scug.be) • System Center Technical consultant for Inovativ Belgium • Focus on System Center Operations Manager and System Center Service Manager • Mail: Dieter.Wijckmans@inovativ.be • Twitter: @DieterWijckmans http://www.inovativ.be
Motto It’s doing common things uncommonly well that brings success. Don’toverthink…
What to expect from this LiveMeeting Topics • Scope • Compare the 2 versions to make sure you make the right choice • What’s new in Opsmgr that justifies upgrading for me? • Whataboutallworkdone in management packs • Stage 1: Comparison • Make decision and start the action • Upgrade plan • Stage 2: Action • Post upgrade Tasks • Stage 3: Evaluate
Intro: A couple of 1 million dollar questions • Should I risk my work done in SCOM2007? • Are there any risks involved? • How can I convince the management? • Feedback + questions: Twitter: #scugbe
Should I choose the penny or the million? Stage 1: Comparison of both versions.
Topology: OpsMgr 2007 vs OpsMgr 2012 OpsMgr 2007 R2 Platform OpsMgr 2012 Platform Parent child topology with the RMS as the parent and all other mgmt servers as children A simpler peer to peer topology
Topology: The Achilles heel of Opsmgr 2007 = RMS • Root Management Server • Provides the following services • Console access • Role based access control • Distribution of configurations to agents • Connectors to other mgmt systems • Alert notifications • Health aggregation • Group Calculations • Availability • Dependency Monitor • DB Grooming • Enables model based mgmt • Introduces the following customer challenges • Performance and scalability bottleneck • Single point of failure (for RMS workloads) • High availability requires clustering
Topology: High Availability options in Opsmgr 2007 for RMS Promotion Clustering • Provides flexibility • DR recovery • Requires manual steps • Solves single-point of failure • Complex to setup • Difficult to patch \ upgrade
Topology: Single point of failure addressed Challenges Addressed • Out of the box HA • Easy to scale out Operational Database Data Warehouse Dependency Monitors Availability Notification Group Calculation X Resource Pool
Topology: Resource Pools Operational Database Data Warehouse X Managed by Pool Managed by a single HS
Easy Deployment and Upgrade Experience Topology: Key improvements in Opsmgr 2012 • Increases Scale and Simplicity • Out of the Box High Availability
What’s new worth mentioning? 1 Network Monitoring 2 Application Performance Monitoring 3 Dashboards 4 Topology Simplification Existing R2 features will be carried forward
Out of the box discovery, monitoring, and reporting Multi-vendor support: Over 80 vendors-2000+ devices certified Memory utilization, processor utilization, port traffic volume, port error analysis & port packet analysis Server to network dependency discovery NETWORK DEVICE MONITORING
Rich synthetic transactions Performance & reliability monitoring of the application through the .NET framework Rich diagnostics to pinpoint the root cause of application failures No new agents to deploy, no management packs to author Dashboards in web or SharePoint Integration with TFS to reduce mean time to fix APPLICATION MONITORING
New IT Pro dashboard creation using Widgets Management Group health dashboard for agent and infrastructure health SharePoint and Visio integration Created using a Dashboard Template option DASHBOARDS
RMS Removal and federation of configuration service Add or remove management servers easily with Resource Pools RMS emulator role to ensure backwards compatibility Full support for the Operations Manager 2007 MPs TOPOLOGY SIMPLIFICATION
Tackle the final question… Stage 2: Action.
Respect the upgrade path OM 2007 OM 2007 SP1 OM 2007 R2 (CU4+) OM 2012 Beta OM 2012 RC OM 2012 RTM
Determine structure of your environment Supported Configuration Unsupported Configuration
DEMO Upgrade helper management pack
Do I have a working SCOM 2012 after the migration? Stage 3: Post Upgrade tasks
Links • Scug blog: http://scug.be/blogs/dieter/default.aspx • Technet info on upgrading: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh205974.aspx
Thanks for attending Feedback: Twitter #scugbe Mail: Dieter.Wijckmans@inovativ.be Twitter: @DieterWijckmans