Operations Manager Integration and PRO Improvements in SCVMM 2012

re: Operations Manager Integration and PRO Improvements in SCVMM 2012

Dan Sheehan — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:49:10 GMT

Thank you for your quick response on our comment in a year+ old post. We were worried it might be missed.

It sounds like you addressed our issue and therefore we can stop creating a overly complicated PowerShell script regarding putting things into and taking them out of maintenance mode in SCOM for host virtual server maintennace. We were only going down this road because the SCVMM integration in 2008 R2 isn't very quick to update and we didn't want guest virtual servers going into and out of maintenance mode uncessarily.

Please pass our thanks on to all those involved regarding change the integration direction and speeding up the update process in general. We can't wait to replace our SCVMM 2008 R2 with SCVMM 2012!

re: Operations Manager Integration and PRO Improvements in SCVMM 2012

Stephen Baron [MSFT] — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:32:51 GMT

For many state changes (start, stop) and VM location changes (migrate), we do push incremental discovery very quickly in 2012, so you should see the location (host property) and/or state (running, stopped) of the VM reflected in Operations Manager in short order.

re: Operations Manager Integration and PRO Improvements in SCVMM 2012

Dan Sheehan — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 12:07:16 GMT

In the previous SCOM 2007 R2 <--> SCVMM 2008 R2 integration, the updates from SCVMM to SCOM regarding the current location of guest virtual servers was not very quick. Even after a host virtual server was put into maintenance mode in SCVMM and all of the guest virtual servers were moved to another host, SCOM was not updated with the new locations of the guests. As a result when the host virtual server was put into maintenance mode, all of the guests that used to be on that host were also put into maintenance mode.

We don't want the guest virtual servers to ever go into maintenance mode in SCOM just because the host virtual server did, because they should be already moved off to another host and still be fully monitored.

Does this new level of SCVMM 2012 integration help that situation at all? I.E. Does it provide more real-time updates to SCOM as to the location of the guest virtual servers, or perhaps putting the host virtual server into maintenance mode in SCVMM only puts the necessary components in SCOM in maintenance mode?

Great blog post BTW. Nice and to the point.

re: Operations Manager Integration and PRO Improvements in SCVMM 2012

Stephen Baron [MSFT] — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:06:24 GMT

The SQL Server Analysis Services connection is used by a couple of our new forecasting reports to estimate future fabric resource utilization based on recorded historical data.

re: Operations Manager Integration and PRO Improvements in SCVMM 2012

Marco Shaw — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:25:30 GMT

Great stuff! Is there any way you can expand on the use of "SQL Server Analysis Services"? That appears to be new with the VMM2012 integration?