Operation Management Suite (OMS)

Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) is a management solution that manages your on-premises and cloud infrastructure. Since OMS is implemented as a cloud-based service, it can be put into operation swiftly and with minimal investment in infrastructure services. All OMS features are easily enabled and new features are accessible on demand.

OMS can be integrated with System Center components such as System Center Operations Manager to extend your existing management investments and give you the synergy of System Center and OMS can working together to provide a full hybrid management experience.

OMS Insight and Analytics provides the management component of OMS but there is so much available in Automation, Site Recovery, Back-up and, Security & Compliance, which you can read about below, or you can watch our video series on Microsoft’s Channel 9 :

With Azure Automation you can automate administrative processes with runbooks that are based on PowerShell and run in the Azure cloud. Runbooks can access any product or service that can be managed with PowerShell including resources in other Public and Private cloulds. Runbooks can also be executed on a server in your local data center to manage local resources.

Azure Automation provides configuration management with PowerShell DSC. You can create and manage DSC resources hosted in Azure and apply them to cloud and on-premises systems to define and automatically enforce their configuration.

With Azure Backup you can protect your application data and retain it for years without any capital investment and with minimal operating costs. You can backup data from physical and virtual Windows servers in addition to application workloads such as SQL Server and SharePoint. You can also use System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) to replicate protected data to Azure for redundancy, long term storage, and replacement of tape. DPM can easily be acquired as part of the OMS licencing SKU.

With Azure Site Recovery as a part of your business continuity and a disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy you can orchestrate replication, failover, and recovery of on-premises Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs), VMware VMs, and physical Windows/Linux servers. You can replicate machines to a secondary data center or private cloud or extend your data center by replicating them to Azure. Site Recovery also provides simple failover and recovery for workloads. It integrates with disaster recovery mechanisms such as SQL Server AlwaysOn, and provides recovery plans for easy failover of workloads that are tiered across multiple machines. Get enterprise class Site Recovery for a fraction of traditional costs as you only pay for the VMs when you use them.

With Security and Compliance, you can identify, assess, and mitigate security risks to your organisation. Implemented through multiple solutions in Log Analytics that analyse log data and configuration from agent systems to assist you in ensuring the ongoing security of your environment.