It may be best to look at each host as an appliance that is deployed at different customer sites. It may be possible to have all the hosts within one Forest and on that host is 4 VM within their own domain/forest.
1 VM is a DC and the other 3 VMs are running Lync/SfB. Cheers Ryan From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Holman Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 5:29 PM To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [msmom] RE: Is OM the right solution? 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> [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Finnesey Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 4:20 PM To: ms...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto: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
