[OpsMgr 2012] System Requirements: System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager ( #OpsMgr #SCOM ) - Updated: June 24, 2013

This document provides information about the operating systems, hardware configurations, software requirements, installation combinations, and security configurations for System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager. This document focuses on the system requirements, and it mentions unsupported configurations only when necessary. If operating systems, hardware configurations, software requirements, installation combinations, and security configurations are not presented here, they have not been tested and are not supported.

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Note : For system requirements across all components of System Center, see System Requirements for System Center 2012 R2.

The Prerequisites checker is no longer a separate option in Setup. However, you can begin the installation process to check the hardware and software prerequisites, and then cancel installation after the required prerequisites have been determined.

We recommend that you also review the key concepts of Operations Manager. Documents to review include the following:

• Release Notes for Operations Manager in System Center 2012 R2 identifies any changes that could affect planning for a new deployment of System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
  
• Deploying System Center 2012 - Operations Manager provides detailed information about the security-related features and settings in Operations Manager that can affect your deployment.
  

This document contains the following sections:

• Operations Manager Virtualization Support
  
• Minimum Screen Resolution Requirements
  
• Minimum Hardware Requirements
  
• Minimum Software Requirements
  
• Requirements by Feature
  
  
  • Management Server
    
  • Operations Console
    
  • Web Console
    
  • Operational Database
    
  • Operations Manager Agent – Windows-Based Computers
    
  • Operations Manager Agent – UNIX- or Linux Computers
    
  • Operations Manager Reporting
    
  • Operations Manager Data Warehouse
    
  • Operations Manager Gateway Server
    
• Supported Firewall Scenarios
  
• Minimum Network Connectivity Speeds
  
• Supported Cluster Configurations
  
• Monitored Item Capacity
  
• Operations Manager Feature Firewall Exceptions
  
• Support for Languages in Addition to English
  
• Supported Network Monitoring Scenarios
  
• Application Performance Monitoring Requirements

Operations Manager Virtualization Support

Microsoft supports running all Operations Manager server features in any physical or virtual environment that meets the minimum requirements that are stated in this document. However, for performance reasons, we recommend that you store the operational database and data warehouse database on a directly attached physical hard drive, and not on a virtual disk. Specifically, virtual computers that are running any Operations Manager server feature must not use any functionality that does not immediately commit all activity on the virtual computer to the virtual hard drive. This includes making use of point-in-time snapshots and writing changes to a temporary virtual hard drive. This is true for every virtualization technology that is used with Operations Manager.

Minimum Screen Resolution Requirements

Operations Manager is optimized for screen resolutions of 1280 x 1024 or larger. The minimum supported screen resolution is 1024 x 768.

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Use the Operations Manager Sizing Helper to determine hardware requirements for each Operations Manager server feature. If you want to install more than one feature on the same computer, use the higher of the recommended hardware requirements for any of the combined features.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.