Mastering: Hyper-V™ Deployment

Introducing Operations Manager 2007

The first System Center product we covered was Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2. VMM gives you the ability to manage the configuration of your hardware virtualization layer, that is, Hyper-V, as well as Virtual Server and VMware ESXi. The next piece of functionality most organizations will want is something to monitor the health and performance of the infrastructure. That's where System Center Operations Manager, also known as SCOM or OpsMgr, comes into play.

Organizations that are deploying Hyper-V for the first time will probably have never used OpsMgr and may have no idea what it is or how it works. We will start by describing the typical monitoring solutions that are available and then look at how ...