 Covers key concepts and considerations for discovering and monitoring network routers and switches, including the network interfaces and ports on those devices and the virtual LAN (VLAN) that they participate in  Covers key concepts and considerations for monitoring Internet Information Services hosted .NET applications from server- and client-side perspectives in getting details about application performance and reliability that can help you pinpoint root causes of incidents  Covers key concepts to consider when designing for disaster recovery Considerations when Upgrading to System Center 2012 - Operations Manager This section of the Design and Planning material covers key concepts and considerations for upgrading to System Center 2012 Operations Manager or System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – (SP1), Operations Manager. Complete upgrade scenarios and procedures are found in . The supported upgrade path is from System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to System Center 2012 Operations Manager, and then to System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1), so – customers may have to perform multiple upgrades. Considerations when performing multiple upgrades include system requirements that do or do not overlap between System Center 2012 Operations Manager and SP1. For example, you will want to consider what – versions of SQL Server are supported and how moving across versions of SQL Server will be required as you upgrade across versions of Operations Manager. If you have not reviewed Getting Started or System Center 2012 - Operations Manager Supported Configurations, you may want to before continuing. These documents contain key concepts and important configuration details you will find helpful as an upgrading customer. Note Unified Installer is a utility designed to perform new, clean installations of System Center 2012 for testing and evaluation purposes only. If you want to upgrade from an existing System Center installation or choose any set up options such as high availability or server component installs, we recommend you refer instead to the procedures detailed in the deployment guides for each individual System Center 2012 component. RMS Removal and the New RMS Emulator In Operations Manager, the single largest change impacting design and planning is the removal of the root management (RMS). All management servers are now that there is no RMS. Therefore, the RMS is no longer a single point of failure as all management servers host the services previously only by the RMS. Roles are distributed to all the management
 Covers key concepts and considerations for discovering and monitoring network routers and switches, including the network interfaces and ports on those devices and the virtual LAN (VLAN) that they participate in  Covers key concepts and considerations for monitoring Internet Information Services .NET applications from server- and client-side perspectives in getting details about application performance and reliability that can help you pinpoint root causes of incidents  Covers key concepts to consider when designing for disaster recovery Considerations when Upgrading to System Center 2012 - Operations Manager This section of the Design and Planning material covers key concepts and considerations for upgrading to System Center 2012 – Operations Manager or System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1), Operations Manager. Complete upgrade scenarios and procedures are found in . The supported upgrade path is from System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to System Center 2012 – Operations Manager, and then to System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1), so customers may have to perform multiple upgrades. Considerations when performing multiple upgrades include system requirements that do or do not overlap between System Center 2012 – Operations Manager and SP1. For example, you will want to consider what versions of SQL Server are supported and how moving across versions of SQL Server will be required as you upgrade across versions of Operations Manager. If you have not reviewed Getting Started or System Center 2012 - Operations Manager Supported Configurations, you may want to before continuing. These documents contain key concepts and important configuration details you will find helpful as an upgrading customer. Note Unified Installer is a utility designed to perform new, clean installations of System Center 2012 for testing and evaluation purposes only. If you want to upgrade from an existing System Center installation or choose any set up options such as high availability or component installs, we recommend you refer instead to the procedures detailed in the deployment guides for each individual System Center 2012 component. RMS Removal and the New RMS Emulator In Operations Manager, the single largest change impacting design and planning is the removal of the root management server (RMS). All management servers are now that there is no RMS. Therefore, the RMS is no longer a single point of failure as all management servers host the services previously hosted only by the RMS. Roles are distributed to all the management