Executive Summary - Planning for Reporting Services

Executive Summary - Planning for Reporting Services

System Center Operations Manager 2012

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The below is an executive summary for requirements planning for implementing Reporting Services for System Center Operations Manager 2012.

Reporting Data Warehouse

• 400 day default data retention period.

• Data is entered in to the data warehouse real time (versus previously batched).

• Performance of I/O subsystem is vital, as well as proper capacity planning.

• There is only one Reporting data warehouse per management group.

• The minimum supported hardware configuration for the Reporting data warehouse component is as follows:
• 2.8GHz or faster x64 processor
• 4GB of RAM or more
• 100GB of available hard disk space

• The software requirements for the Reporting data warehouse component consist of the following:
• Windows Server 2008 SP2 64 bit or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• SQL Server 2008 SP1 or higher
• SQL Server 2008 R2 or higher
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• .NET Framework 4.0
•  SQL Collation—SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
• %SYSTEMDRIVE% formatted with the NTFS file system
• SQL Server Full Text Search

Reporting Server

• Access to reports provided via Operations Console. (Security integrated with OM roles.)

• Reporting Server, is installed on a Reporting Services instance.
• The minimum supported hardware configuration for the Reporting Server component is as follows:
• 2.8GHz or faster x64 processor
• 2GB of RAM or more
• 20GB of available hard disk space

• The software requirements for the Reporting Server component are as follows:
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 SP1 or higher
• SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 or higher
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• .NET Framework 4.0
• At least 1024MB free hard disk space on %SYSTEMDRIVE% drive
• SQL Collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS