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

#MMSMOA

@CFullerMVP

Principal Consultant

Started with MOM 2000

Dallas TX, USA

Cameron Fuller

#MMSMOA

@Bob_Cornelissen

Managing Consultant

Started with MOM 2000

Bob Cornelissen

Netherlands and Thailand

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 Gateways in Azure (AMGW)

Resources in Azure to your on-premOpsMgr

CHOICES!

OpsMgr in Azure

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 impactsHow 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

DemoLet’s just jump in and show what kind of alternative to ACS this is!

Cameron demo time

Monitoring in a Cloudy worldWhile 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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