Tag Archives: SCOM

SCVMM/PRO Complexity: High

According to Microsoft’s own documentation, integrating SCOM with SCVMM adds high complexity and additional cost to your virtualization environment. Continue reading

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Hyper-V Administrators Exhibit Advanced Memory Skills

Hyper-V CSV LUNs have no human-friendly labels, making it difficult for administrators to easily identify volumes. Instead, cryptic GUIDs are shown when monitoring from System Center Operations Manager 2007. Continue reading

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Save $14,970 on VMware ESX management

System Center Virtual Machine Manager is licensed per physical host — Hyper-V or VMware ESX — at a cost of $1497 each. Continue reading

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Deceptive Microsoft SCVMM Advertising

System Center Virtual Machine Manager is limited to managing virtual machines (VMs). Claims that SCVMM can manage physical infrastructure are misleading. Continue reading

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SCVMM 2008 Management Pack Finally Released

The System Center Operations Manager Management Pack (MP) for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 was finally released yesterday.  As I wrote previously, the documentation was initially misleading on this feature — eventually we learned that the MP would ship … Continue reading

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