SCOM and VMM resources for TechEd MGT308

Yesterday I presented a session at Microsoft Tech Ed Australia on service monitoring of distributed applications and systems hosted on Hyper-V and VMware ESX using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM 2007 R2) and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM 2008 R2).

I promised to post links to relevant resources, which are below. Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions from the session.
Also, if you attended, don’t forget to fill out your evaluation form – you can win stuff, and it lets me know what you thought. Thanks!

System Center Operations Manager

• Main product page
• SCOM 2007 R2 eval download
• What’s new in R2
• Operations Manager 2007 videos – Lots of videos, including this one on Distributed Application Designer
• Operations Manager 2007 SP1 videos – Some more videos, related to some of the new SP1 features
• Building PRO-enabled management packs
• Service Level Dashboard solution accelerator

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

• Main product page
• VMM 2008 R2 eval download
• VMM overview video – excellent introduction to VMM
• Virtual Machine Manager whitepaper -  overview of VMM and server virtualisation
• VMM Product documentation, including:
• How to Integrate Operations Manager with VMM 2008 R2
• Podcast on VMM 2008 R2 – Kenon Owens – technical product manager on the integrated virtualization team
• Hyper-V planning and deployment guide