Architecting Operations Manager in a Cloudy world Cameron Fuller @CFullerMVP http://blogs.catapultsystems.com Bob Cornelissen (AKA SCOM-Bob) @Bob_Cornelissen http://www.bictt.com/blogs
Cameron Fuller Dallas TX, USA @CFullerMVP Principal Consultant Started with MOM 2000 #MMSMOA
Bob Cornelissen Netherlands and Thailand @Bob_Cornelissen Managing Consultant Started with MOM 2000 #MMSMOA
Architecting OpsMgr in a Cloudy world Agenda: Architecting Operations Manager Microsoft OMS impacts Monitoring in a Cloudy World
Architecting Operations Manager While considering on-prem, Hybrid and Cloud configuration
Architecting Check your assumptions at the door:
Architecting High level architecting for the Cloud: What is still the same (Operations Manager) Where may be different Where impacts costs Where impacts capabilities How is vastly different
Architecture & Management Groups Management groups and Management group considerations Does not require any additional management groups Could benefit from a Cloud based management group
Architecture design considerations What underlying design considerations still apply? Management Servers still need to be in proximity to their database server and data warehouse server Consoles still need to be in proximity to their management server(s) The same port requirements exist 5723 to the management servers 1433 (or other port number) to the SQL Servers Etc.
Architecture & Management Servers Management Servers Need at least 2 Size & costing: 1 std A3 = $267.84/month/server 1 std A4 = $535.68/month/server Roles can still be consolidated Requirements at http://tinyurl.com/q8nurgn Sizing helper at http://tinyurl.com/q3sxdd6
Architecture & database components combined Azure SQL is not currently supported for any of these roles DB/DW/Reporting: Size & costing: 1 std D3 = $416.64/month (may require additional disk space) 1 std D4 = $833.28/month (may require additional disk space)
Architecture & database components split Database server Size & costing: 1 std D3 = $535.68/month Datawarehouse server Size & costing: 1 std D3 = $535.68/month (may require additional disk space) Reporting Servers Size & costing: 1 std A2 = $133.92/month Licensing note: SC standard license versus gallery image
Architecture & OpsMgr Components Gateway Servers Size & costing: 1-2 std A2 = $133.92/month 1-2 std D2 = $208.32/month 1-2 std A3 = $267.84/month Consoles Size & costing: 1 std A2 = $133.92/month 1 std A3 = $267.84/month
Monitoring with resources in the Cloud Resources in Azure to your on-prem OpsMgr Resources in Azure to Gateways in Azure (AMGW) OpsMgr in Azure CHOICES!
Architecting ACS functionality What about Audit Collection Services (ACS)? ACS still exists in OpsMgr 2012 R2 and beyond ACS could benefit from a Cloud based approach Most likely a D4 configuration plus additional drive space Running ACS in the Cloud could benefit from Cloud based backup approaches (Azure IaaS backup) Removes the data from your site and moves it to the Cloud Consider OMS as a replacement option to ACS Built to gather data from a variety of sources Would need queries, dashboards and potentially reports
Architecting, Redundancy, High availability Azure Site Recovery For on-prem OpsMgr designs Consider Azure IaaS backup Quick and easy method to backup your Cloud resources Scheduled & Policy based Redundancy? High Availability?
Microsoft OMS impacts How does OMS change the equation? Visualizing a Cloudy world
OMS Overview Collect Correlate Visualize Act Automate manual and repeated tasks Protect and extend your datacenter Audit Breach Analysis Malware Assess Update Assess
OMS Highlights/Strengths Cloud based Excellent for data visualization: Don t hate it just because it s pretty Pre-built solutions not requiring configuring or any significant tuning Connects into existing OpsMgr environments or standalone systems Added Linux Server standalone systems
Key insights on OMS OMS is currently more analyzing than monitoring since it is lacking alerting, reporting, authoring, MP ecosystem. OMS is NOT OpsMgr in the Cloud Management of business services is still a core requirement OMS Conclusions: Learn OMS and use it together with SCOM SCOM Vendors start integrating with OMS Content above taken from the Is Operations Manager still relevant white paper and webinar
ACS vs OMS ACS = SCOM Audit Collection Services Centralize Security events Filter Report OMS = New solution for audit collection? Centralize Security events Query Dashboard PowerBi
OMS Security And Audit
Demo Let s just jump in and show what kind of alternative to ACS this is! Cameron demo time
Monitoring in a Cloudy world While considering on-prem, Hybrid and Cloud configuration
Monitoring Cloud based workloads Use Operations Manager for: AWS: Azure:
Monitoring Cloud based workloads Use OMS for: Automation Backup Site Recovery
URL References Designing OM when you have IaaS virtuals: http://tinyurl.com/qgjekn3 The road to the cloud webinar highlights: http://tinyurl.com/q8wbxsg Using an Azure Monitoring Gateway: http://tinyurl.com/pxba4qd Is Operations Manager still relevant? http://tinyurl.com/ne6x5yx
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