OpsMgr: EMC ESI support for Microsoft System Center

One of our biggest problem areas over the last couple of years has been our storage environments, especially in terms of visibility. The storage team always had visibility of the environments with the native tools supplied by the various vendors, but to get the visibility to the rest of the environment has proven to be …

MMS 2011

I’m hopping on a plane tomorrow to attend MMS 2011 in Vegas (Yeah Baby!) My husband is insisting that I blog about every single little moment of it, which I doubt would happen. But I may jot down some of the daily highlights to this blog. I will be attending sessions on OpMgr vNext, as …

OpsMgr: vNext (OpsMgr 2012)

Found this on Stefan Strangler’s blog this morning: Cannot wait. What I got from this video is that vNext will be easier to manage with more focus on application health, which makes me very happy. Also like the idea of delegated rights within OpsMgr, as well as the fact that the AviCode bits will now …

OpsMgr CU3 now available

And then, Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) is also now available for download here. Before running the upgrade, read this great blog post by Marnix Wolf, as there are a couple of things to watch out for. According to the accompanying KB article, CU3 fixes the following: Feature addition: Azure Application Monitoring Feature addition: Parameter Extraction …

OpsMgr now supported on SQL 2008 R2

New installations of OpsMgr 2007 R2 is now supported on SQL 2008. Upgrading your current R2 deployment will be supported with a future CU 🙂 For details on doing the installation, visit this KB Article.