Step Three: Determine Operations Manager Integration

The third step in the VMM planning process is to determine if System Center Operations Manager should be integrated with the VMM deployment. For VMM to make intelligent placement recommendations for where virtual machines should be deployed or automatically moved to, the VMM Agent collects performance data from host server(s) and sends it to the VMM server every 9 minutes. To further enhance VMM’s ability to make intelligent decisions about virtual machine placements, you can also deploy Operations Manager Agents to host servers and their virtual machine guests to gather additional performance information using the Operations Manager Server Virtualization Management Pack.

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