Figure 9.16 A view of a distributed service and its various services visible through
Operations Manager
Operations Manager 2012 R2 also understands clouds and has a cloud view capability.
Once the SCVMM MP has been imported into Operations Manager, and the SCVMM
connector to Operations Manager has been configured, you will be able to navigate to
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager ➢ Cloud Health Dashboard ➢
Cloud Health within the Monitoring workspace. This lists all of the clouds. Select a
cloud and in the Tasks pane select the Fabric Health Dashboard, which, as shown in
Figure 9.17, provides insight into all of the fabric elements that relate to the cloud.
Figure 9.17 The Fabric Health dashboard for a SCVMM cloud
With the environment being monitored, a key aspect is the backup that I talked about