Matt Goedtel on Operations Management : Operations Manager 2007, HA Guidance

OpsMgr 2007 - SQL Server Log Shipping Guide

mgoedtel — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:16:00 GMT

Being Chris Fox is busy right now with authoring/updating docs for Operations Manager 2007 R2, I am going to post this guide on my blog until it is uploaded on the OpsManJam site. This document I authored, provides the following guidance:

This document provides deployment guidance for installing and configuring the SQL Server 2005 Log Shipping feature as an option to provide redundancy of the Operations Manager operational database between two SQL Server 2005 servers in the same management group. This configuration is intended to compliment your recovery strategy.

Enjoy!

Finished - SQL Log Shipping Configuration Guide

mgoedtel — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:24:00 GMT

I just submitted to Chris Fox for review and posting on the OpsManJam site, the guide "System Center Operations Manager 2007 Configure SQL Server Log Shipping Guide for Operations Manager 2007 Operational Database" that I have been working on in my spare time. This guide currently only covers the implementation of Log Shipping as an HA option for the OperationsManager (operational) database, not the Audit or Data Warehouse database, and provides guidance on configuring the secondary SQL Server and the management group when the primary SQL Server becomes unavailable. While I have reviewed similar documentation developed by others outside of Microsoft, I felt it necessary to ensure detailed guidance is consistant with our other published whitepapers. I am a stickler for consistency and detail, if you have not realized that already!

While I could have also covered the Data Warehouse and Audit database, it would have taken a bit more time and I felt I could add guidance for those two databases in a future version.

As soon as I see it published on the OpsManJam site, I'll post an update. However, I am sure you have RSS feeds enabled and will be notified accordingly.

HA Options for Operations Manager 2007

mgoedtel — Mon, 28 May 2007 04:25:00 GMT

Operations Manager 2007 offers many options for High Availabilty over MOM 2005. The HA options officially supported by the Product Group are the following:

Operational Database - single Active/Passive database cluster.
Root Management Server (RMS) - single Active/Passive Root Management Server Cluster or single Active/Passive Operational Database & RMS Cluster where both components are on the same node of the cluster. In addition, if you choose not to cluster the RMS, you can promote another Management Server to become the RMS. Remember, you must backup up the encrypted security key on the RMS after it is built, otherwise you loose the Run As security configuration settings defined on the RMS and you will be spending time re-configuring this information.
Management Server - no different than MOM 2005. Install more than one in your management group to provide for agent failover.
Agents - no different than MOM 2005.
Console - you can install up to 50 consoles within a management group. As long as you have more than one installed in your management group, then you will have no issue with continuation of operations monitoring and administration (since we are dealing with one console now and not two like MOM 2005).
Data Warehouse - single Active/Passive dataabse cluster.
Audit Database (ACS) - single Active/Passive database cluster.
ACS Forwarder - ACS agents will fail over to any ACS Management Server in the management group, but remember that each ACS Management Server must have its own ACS database in order for failover to work. One approach is to have two management groups defined strictly for ACS and you can configure Agent failover (albiet manually) between the two ACS Collectors.
Gateway Server (GWS) - You can have more than one installed in an untrusted domain/forest and you can configure a Gateway Server to communicate with any Management Server in the management group. A Gatway Server can be configured to failover to multiple Management Servers if necesary.

An official guide will be released shortly that will provide details on how to configure the HA options for OpsMgr server roles or components. Stay tuned!!