Quite regularly I get asked “Can we use 1 SQL Server or AlwaysOn Cluster for our System Center implementation?” The answer is Yes, HOWEVER, there is some caveats. Performance Sizing Reporting Services Service Manager, Operations Manager and Configuration Manager all use a lot of space. I tested this in my lab with the following servers: […]
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Installing a new SQL Reporting Services instance for System Center 2016
The System Center documentation clearly states you must use a separate instance of Reporting Services for each component of the suite. Well that’s fine, but you don’t want to have multiple Reporting Services servers just for reporting. In my series of posts that outline how to install SQL for System Center 2016 (links below), we […]
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Installing Highly Available SQL 2016 with SP1 for System Center 2016 – Part 3 (Reporting Services on a SQL Cluster)
Now whilst in the last 2 articles we looked at a Highly Available Scaled Out deployment of SQL and Reporting Services, this requires 4 servers coupled with Service Manager Deployment with 5 servers for Service Manager for example would total 9 servers! The aim of this article is to show you how to save money […]
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Installing Highly Available SQL 2016 with SP1 for System Center 2016 – Part 1 (SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups)
In this 3 part guide I will go through the installation of a Highly Available SQL Server 2016 with SP1 installation. There are 2 SQL Servers hosting the Databases and 2 Servers hosting Reporting Services . This is probably the most common installation I have seen in the field. Part 1 – This ArticlePart 2 […]
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Installing Highly Available SQL 2016 with SP1 for System Center 2016 – Part 2 (Network Load Balancing Reporting Services)
In this article we will install SQL Server Reporting Services on 2 dedicated Reporting Services Servers Highly Available using Windows Network Load Balancing. You can view the other parts to this series here: Part 1 – Installing Highly Available SQL 2016 with SP1 for System Center 2016 – Part 1 (SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups)Part […]
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Installing SQL 2016 with SP1 for System Center 2016 (Standalone SQL Server + Reporting Services)
In this guide I will go through the installation of SQL Server 2016 with SP1. This can be a separate standalone server or could be collocated with the System Center product for smaller installations or Dev/Test/POC environments. For example: This guide is suitable for: System Center Operations Manager 2016 System Center Configuration Manager 2016 System […]
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Implementing System Center Orchestrator 2016 – Step by Step – Part 2 (Basic Configuration & Integration Packs)
In this article we will focus on some typical initial post deployment tasks and how to deploy the Integration Packs. Orchestrator automation is driven by process automation components. Think of a normal toolbox, hammer, screwdriver. They are all tools but they do different kinds of jobs. Each of these jobs are called “Activities” in Orchestrator. […]
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Implementing System Center Orchestrator 2016 – Step by Step – Part 1 (Architecture & Installation)
System Center Orchestrator 2016 is fairly easy to setup and deploy but so many organisations havent installed or configured it which is shocking given its part of the System Center Suite. Ok, but what actually is it? Well, if you think about the most common IT challenge, the continued processing of manual repeatable tasks coupled […]
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