Are the hosts in the same forest, or are they a member server to a VM based DC hosted by the physical server?
I have seen LOTS of branch office scenarios - and that is a weird one for each location to be total in a distinct forest. It is much more common to see hosts in one, VM's in another or in their own distinct forest/domain. In any case, SCOM would be an excellent fit. The biggest challenge you will have: Certificate management. You likely won't have a need for GW's and since the instance count is small per location (I am assuming each forest is a unique location) then you will need 5 certs per location, one for each OSE present (host plus 4 VM). You just need to build some automation with your cert deployment/management process so this is fairly automatic, and then it's pretty simple. From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Finnesey Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 4:20 PM To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [msmom] Is OM the right solution? It has been almost 7 years from the last time I used Operations Manager so I am sure the product has changed a lot. I want to get some feedback from the group if OM is the right solution. I am going to have to monitor a large amount of servers. Each server will be running a set of 4 VMs and be within its own Forest. I would like to monitor the hardware as well as the Hyper-V host and 4 guest VMs. Cheers Ryan
