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SCOM 2007 R2 Demo

Whipped a demo lab together of SCOM 2007 R2 with Veeam Management Pack for VMware. Check out the pic below. If I get some time I will post more about the install process.

All told it took about 3 hours start to finish to get this running. I still have a bunch more to do to make it production ready, but for demo purposes this will do.

Here is a quick run down of the procedure:

1. Install SCOM 2007 R2 (for the demo i put everything on the same machine. Vmware VM, 1 vCPU, 4GB mem)
2. Install Veeam Enterprise Management Server (used the same VM as SCOM). Run the executable as Administrator on 2008 R2 or it will yell at you.
3. Install Veeam Enterprise UI (a web GUI for their EMS. should be the same install if you ask me, but...)
4. Run some SCOM agent commands to get all of the Veeam stuff registered. The MP uses the agent to make some registry changes to the server.
5. After all that I threw in an old fashioned reboot just for good measure. Non of this asked for a reboot, but I threw one in here because the agent takes a while to catch up with the registry changes it makes and I am impatient.
6. After the reboot all of the components showed up without issue. Several hours later I checked back in and took the picture above.

About Rocky Giglio

Education/Certification EMCIE CLARiiON Expert, EMCIE Recover Point, EMCIE Celerra Specialist, MCITS, VCP, MCP, CCDA, DCNIDS, DCASD, DCSNS Associates of Science in Information Technology, Bryant & Stratton College, 2000 Technical Skills VMware vSphere, VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Site Recovery Manager (SRM 1.x, 4.0) View4, View 3, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Lab Manager (3.x, 4.x) P2V, VCB, Upgrade Software Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010 Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 Server Windows XP, Vista, 7 Active Directory, Group Policy SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 SharePoint 2007 DNS, DHCP, WINS VBScript PowerShell C#, .NET Citrix PS4.5, XenApp Avamar (4.x, 5.x) Hardware Dell Servers, Storage EMC CLARiiON, Celerra, Avamar, Centera, DataDomain EqualLogic NetApp Cisco – Nexus, MDS, Catalyst, UCS HP Servers, Storage Work History Arraya Solutions, Plymouth Meeting, PA 2008 – Present Services Manager Senior Solutions Engineer Leverage Business Systems, PA 2004 – 2007 Vice President TNS Media Intelligence, PA 2001-2004 Network Administrator

Major Projects Healthcare Network Architect Exchange 2007 virtual and storage infrastructure to support over 10,000 users. Using vSphere and EMC CLARiiON, designed a solution to support a large user network spread across multiple locations. Large Plumbing Supply Company Architected Exchange 2007 infrastructure for 2,000 users. Planned and implemented Exchange 2007 CCR environment for high availability of the Exchange environment and provided load balanced Hub Transport and Client Access servers. Fully migrated from Exchange 2000. Global Law Firm Designed and implemented a replicated storage solution that supports VMware SRM and a large View 4 infrastructure. Also planned and assisted with vSphere upgrades and implemented the Cisco Nexus 1000v. VMware JumpStarts Provided on site consulting and mentorship for clients ranging from twenty to many hundred servers. Projects involved design, architecture, implementation and knowledge transfer. Each engagement provided customer staff with the knowledge and skills to operate and scale new VMware environments. School District Successfully implemented VMware VDI for 300 student desktops. Configured XP Desktop Virtual Machines for optimal performance in a Virtual Desktop environment, script terminal setups to control printers, and user settings.

 

 

 

 

 

weekly flow

there was a day called monday
it came and then it went
i know that i participated
although i must lament
i can remember little of it
and this i most resent

tuesday come and gone
and not much more to show
with plenty more tomorrow
amidst the weekly flow
what is the point of this short poem
another i don't know

Do Christians Have Feelings?

Think back my Christian friend to the last time you felt close to God. What did it feel like, can you even remember? No doubt there was joy, peace, clarity of mind, commitment to service. Where are those feelings now? Was it just youthful Christian zeal that has now given way to learned stoic faith? How do you feel about God? He has feelings about you.

These brief thoughts flow from the book I am going through with the high school class. The book is titled, Feelings and Faith, and it was written by Brian S. Borgman. I recommend it. http://feelingsandfaith.com/

Exchange 2010 and VMware HA

Ok, so I have seen multiple different places confirming that Microsoft is not supporting VMware High Availability for Exchange 2010 DAG clusters. What I want to know is why? I don't see how HA is going to affect the cluster or servers functionality.

HA doesn't do anything to the running VM or change it in any way. It simply reboots the machine if the hosting server sustains a hardware failure (Or, if VM monitoring is turned on and the heartbeat fails). So, question is how is this any different than rebooting a physical server that is part of a DAG after it sustains a blue screen or hardware issue? Granted the VM will boot faster than a physical server, but what will go wrong if anything?

DAC will keep the server from mounting its databases if the owning server cannot be contacted. PAM and SAM should also keep the server from trying to become the active owner of the database after it reboots.

Anyone have insight on this? Also, I have seen others stating that VMotion/DRS will also not be supported. Same question there, this does not change the server, however there is the possiblity of a slight network blip during the move. Thoughts or knowledge of why this is their stance?

It is easy enough to turn these features off, but why lose these awesome features if you don't have to. I will most likely leave them on, and use them, unless I see them really break something.