Install SCCM with SQL on an other server

[nrambaud]

Hi everyone

 

Firstly, i'm sorry for my english i'm french so i'm trying to do my best.

I'm working in a company and I have for mission to install SCCM, SCOM and SCVMM. We have about 60 physical servers and 60 virtual machines to supervise and it's growing very quickly ( around 15 physical server a year).

 

First question :

 

What's the best for SCCM, install everything on the same server, or install sccm on a server and the database on a sql server ?

 

Second question :

 

I'm trying to find an architecture to install SCCM, SCOM and SCVMM and I don't know what's the best, does anyone has suggestions ? Is it possible to install SCOM or SCCM or SCVMM on virtual machines or is it a mistake ? I wanted to put all the database on the same server to have a SQL Server working just for SCCM, SCOM and SCVMM, is it a good idea ?

 

Thank you for the responses.

If you want any others informations tell me.

 

Nicolas

[waingro]

It really depends on your environment and your budgetary limitations, with the biggest issue you need to worry about being licensing and hardware. If you have a solid virtual environment, licensing availability, and space for separate VMs, that's the way I would go. Otherwise, if OS licensing is limited I would use on beefy box and run all the systems on it.

 

I'm a fan of separate VMs for all my System Center servers. We have a four node cluster running server 2008 core which provides us with HA VMs. I have SQL on its own VM and it is the backend DB for SCCM, SCOM, SCVMM, and SCDPM. All of those machines are on VMs except for DPM (DPM is physical since Hyper-V can't pass an attached SCSI device for a tape drive). But, then again, we built the environment with that design in mind, so my setup may not be feasible for your environment.

 

The point is the System Center suite will run just fine on one or many servers, whether physical or virtual. It all boils down to the physical hardware and storage it is running on.