By the way Karen – you might have seen this – but this is an excellent guide on the topic:
http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/indexid/19135/Default.aspx
From: Kevin Holman
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:32 PM
To: msmom@lists.myITforum.com
Subject: RE: Microsoft Recommendation for Ops Mgr 2007 R2 (RMS) on ESX VM
Supported config guide:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb309428.aspx
Operations Manager 2007 Virtualization Support
Microsoft supports running all Operations Manager 2007 components in any physical or virtual environment that meets the minimum requirements that are stated in this document. There are some restrictions on virtualization functionality that can be used with Operations Manager 2007. Specifically, virtual computers running any Operations Manager 2007 component must not make use of any functionality where all activity on the virtual computer is not immediately committed to the virtual hard drive. This includes making use of point-in-time snapshots and writing changes to a temporary virtual hard drive. This is true no matter what virtualization technology is used with Operations Manager 2007.
Therefore – everything CAN be hosted on a VM(s), however – each VM would still need to meet the minimum supported and recommended configurations for your deployment design, agent count, etc…
Looking at the R2 sizing helper spreadsheet, you can see large RMS/DB’s will require significant processor, RAM, and disk, which don’t always make them good candidates for virtualization.
I don’t know of a website where Microsoft recommends “against” virtualizing the RMS, but I can tell you from a design perspective, those of us in the field almost always recommend physical hardware, which meets or exceeds the minimum specs called out in the sizing spreadsheet, unless the customer has an EXCELLENT performing virtualization platform, and the deployment will not be a very large agent count.
From: admin@lists.myITforum.com [mailto:admin@lists.myITforum.com] On Behalf Of Cooper, Karen A.
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 11:33 AM
To: msmom@lists.myITforum.com
Subject: [msmom] Microsoft Recommendation for Ops Mgr 2007 R2 (RMS) on ESX VM
Hi,
I have seen the answer before but I wanted to know if there was a place on Microsoft website the actually recommends or doesn’ t recommend having Ops Mrg 2007 R2 RMS on a virtual servers. It is recommended to have it has a physical server or can very thing be VM?
Thx
Karen
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