Wednesday, September 12, 2012

[OpsMgr 2012] Understanding Resources Pools in OpsMgr 2012

Resource Pools were added in Operations Manager 2012. As a quick definition for what they are:
A resource pool is a collection of management servers used to distribute work amongst themselves and take over work from a failed member.” – subset from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh230706.aspx.

 An update to the following definition based upon this discussion is that a gateway can also be a member of a resource pool:  http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/94138/Default.aspx . “A resource pool is a collection of management servers and/or gateway servers used to distribute work amongst themselves and take over work from a failed member.”


Read this interesting article that explain what resources pools DO NOT do : http://www.systemcentercentral.com/tabid/143/indexid/95421/default.aspx


Additional Readings:
What does the RMSe actually do?  http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2012/01/11/what-does-the-root-management-server-emulator-rmse-actually-do-in-opsmgr-scom.aspx?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
How does Windows agent failover work? http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2012/06/05/how-does-the-failover-process-work-in-opsmgr-2012-scom-sysctr.aspx
Changing membership of resource pools: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2012/07/24/automatic-and-manual-resource-pools-in-operations-manager-2012-scom-sysctr.aspx
Can a gateway server be a member of a resource pool? http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/94138/Default.aspx
How to create a resource pool: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh230706.aspx

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