Microsoft® System Center 2012 Unleashed

Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Always create a design and plan when deploying Operations Manager, even if it is a simple one.

• Take future expansion and relevance of hardware into account when sizing servers for OpsMgr deployment.

• Keep the installation of OpsMgr on a separate server or set of separate dedicated member servers that do not run any other separate applications.

• Start with a single management group and add on additional management groups only if they are absolutely necessary.

• Use Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and SQL 2008 R2 together to gain maximum performance from both.

• Use SQL Enterprise when combining components on the same server.

• Use SQL Enterprise when scaling up Operations Manager.