SCOM Upgrade 2016 to 2019 options and recommendation

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KamWaiChan asked Nov 2, '20 LeonLaude edited Nov 2, '20

SCOM Upgrade 2016 to 2019 options and recommendation

Hi Everyone,

We are currently running Server 2016 with SCOM 2016, and planning to upgrade it to SCOM 2019. Do you recommend to do a in place upgrade or setup a whole new set VM with Server 2019 and SCOM 2019 to do the manual migration? Which option is better and why? Also my company planning to move everything to Azure soon, is SCOM still valuable?

Thank you!

msc-operations-manager

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Answer 1 · 2020-11-02T17:39:00.987Z

LeonLaude answered Nov 2, '20 LeonLaude edited Nov 2, '20

Hi,

There’s no really ”best” option in my opinion, it depends on your requirements. In your case since you’re running pretty fresh servers and SCOM versions I would go for an in-place upgrade.

If you decide to do an in-place upgrade you can follow my blog post here: https://thesystemcenterblog.com/2019/03/15/upgrading-to-scom-2019-step-by-step

If you decide for a side-by-side-migration then you’ll of course run on the newest supported Windows Server & SQL Server versions, which would last you slightly longer support wise.

SCOM is still valuable even if you run your workloads in Azure, you can still monitor your workloads with SCOM or use Azure Monitor or combine both.

(If the reply was helpful please don't forget to upvote or accept as answer, thank you)

Best regards,
Leon

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KamWaiChan · Nov 02, 2020 at 06:58 PM

Thank you Leon.

You mention there something call Azure workload monitor with SCOM. Do you have any URL/article to share how to setup and configure?

Best Regards,

Johnny

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LeonLaude KamWaiChan · Nov 02, 2020 at 06:59 PM

Here you go:

Connect Operations Manager to Azure Monitor
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/platform/om-agents

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Answer 2 · 2020-11-02T17:52:15.32Z

StoyanChalakov answered Nov 2, '20 StoyanChalakov edited Nov 2, '20

Hi,

I fully agree with Leon, the upgrade approach would depend on what you want to achieve exactly:
- If you think that your customer environment is designed, sized and build and is performing in a nice way, then of course it would be a lot easier to do an in-place upgrade.
- If you think that there is optimization potention or you want to make some design changes (SQL configurations, Service Accounts, other irrevertible configs) then going for a parallel migration is the better option, because it allows you to build a new and optimized MG and then switch to it.

Hope I could be of your assistance!

Regards,
Stoyan

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