We did a webinar about ChatGPT last time and we wanted to dive one deeper into combining the power of AI and ChatGPT with our other favorite product – SCOM – and see how that works out. Lucky our friends at GripMatix created something for that, so let’s investigate. When: Wednesday 12 April 2023 at … Read more
I hope you are all aware that GripMatix makes SCOM management packs for monitoring Citrix solutions. This has been a gaping hole for a few years since the pack from comtrade was bought by Citrix and next basically stopped. Since a while, we can now use the GripMatix packs for this and I highly encourage … Read more
Microsoft announced yesterday that Ubuntu 22.04 and RHEL 9 will be supported in SCOM 2019 and SCOM 2022. This is due to having added OpenSSL 3.0 support as well to the product and adding new packs to support these flavors. For SCOM 2022 this is implemented as a hotfix on top of UR1 as KB5024286. … Read more
Until now, we’ve created the lab and explored the cluster options and settings. Now finally, it is time to create some virtual machines. Let’s get straight into it! Let’s hit Add in the Virtual Machines button on the menu. Give it a nice name, allocate the essentials like no. of virtual processors, memory and storage. Optionally you can attach an OS ISO … Read more
In the previous part we took the time to set up our AzS HCI lab. If you’ve been following along (I’d strongly recommend to if you haven’t!) you have a 4-node cluster and WAC installed. We have not connected the cluster to Azure just yet and I think it’s better if we looked around the disconnected lab … Read more
After reading a lot about Azure Stack HCI, and comparing the two flavors (Windows Server HCI vs Azure Stack HCI), I think it is about time we get some dirt on our hands. That’s right, it is time to spin up our own Azure Stack HCI lab and see it in action! I found this tutorial in the official … Read more
System Center 2022 UR1 was recently released, and it comes with a lot of issues fixed. As an enhancement, it also ties with another big announcement in the SCOM space in recent days, the SCOM MI. This release allows you to discover Azure Monitor SCOM MI (read more about that here) from the console. This … Read more
Microsoft released Windows Admin Center (WAC) 2211 yesterday as Generally Available. There is of course a lot of good stuff included again in the areas of the platform itself, Azure Stack HCI management, WAC in Azure etc. A good list of all the good new stuff can be found on the following page: Windows Admin … Read more
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) has been around for many years as you all know. In most cases this runs in a datacenter and monitors your datacenter resources, such as infrastructure, servers and applications. The last few years more companies have been adopting cloud and hybrid workloads as well as datacenter workloads. We have … Read more
Looking to transform your data center into more modern, easy to manage and cloud-driven infrastructure? Well, first of all – congratulations! You’re on the right path 😀 – Azure Stack HCI is probably the hottest cake in the hybrid cloud market right now. If you’re planning to move onto Azure Stack HCI but not sure … Read more