Hi All
We are looking to purchase and implement SAM to monitor around 1000 servers (mixture of physical and virtual), this would be with the ALX unlimited component monitoring.
I see from the install guides that both physical and virtual machines are supported for installation. What I am after is some guidance or best practice for installations of a similar size please? Can we use our existing physical SQL Cluster for the SAM database or is a dedicated SQL server the preferred option?
What about the web console? We can't dedicate a physical NIC within ESX to the web console server, so considering SNMPs lower priority, should we be implementing a physical server for this also?
To begin with we'll be monitoring all 1000 servers for Windows performance, our AD environment, Exch, SQL and then we'll start building application monitors. We'll be monitoring all servers for availability - sorry I can't provide more info at this stage but hopefully this will at least give an indication of potential db sizes, resources required etc...
Thanks!