It’s been a terrific run and the community support for System Center Operations Manager has never been stronger. I've been fortunate to be engaged in much virtualization work including advanced monitoring with SCVMM and OpsMgr. Unfortunately I simply don’t have time to blog on both topics but don’t wish to abandon them either.

I've decided to merge the two topics and focus on advanced monitoring of physical and virtual environments using OpsMgr and SCVMM. There is no denying the data center space is rapidly becoming a healthy mix of both physical and virtual environments and clients are demanding a ubiquitous monitoring solution for both environments to ensure data center performance optimization. That a tall order for any monitoring solution but I know OpsMgr R2 and SCVMM R2, together, can deliver.

This blog will now focus on advanced monitoring of heterogeneous data centers. This includes traditional physical servers, both Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms. It will also include the virtual space, both Hyper-V as well as VMware. Lastly, it absolutely will include networking components!