Best Practices
The following are best practices from this chapter:
• Deploy Operations Manager components on Windows 64-bit and SQL 64-bit for optimal performance.
• Use SQL Enterprise whenever possible to improve database performance, especially for the ACS components.
• Run the prerequisite checker before installing components and remediate all findings, including warnings.
• Take future expansion and relevance of hardware into account when sizing servers for OpsMgr deployment.
• Use a dedicated instance of SQL Reporting Services for Operations Manager reporting.
• The directory that hosts the OpsMgr agent queue and log files should be excluded from the antivirus and defragmentation applications.
• Keep the installation of OpsMgr on a separate ...
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