SCOM Scalability
Starlen Sass
Information Technology Consultant at University of the Witwatersrand
The solution scales to the cloud, but it could scale across and support a vast number of platforms, especially your Unix environment. In terms of coverage, SCOM does cover a fair amount of the Microsoft environment.
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GovindarajV
Systems Engineer II at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
I would rate the scalability of SCOM as an eight out of ten. In our company, we manage 500 servers using SCOM.
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Richard McLaughlin
Vocational Coordinator at UMMS
SCOM has been scaling pretty nicely for us, which is what it's intended to do. We do have plans to increase usage. It's constantly evolving, developing utility. All new systems go onto it. It's not shrinking anytime soon.
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SCOM
March 2024
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Philippe Roussel
Delivery Manager at Inetum
I have worked with four big international companies using this solution.
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Hussein Taha
IT Enterprise System Administrator at Misr Technology Services
The solution is scalable. We currently have six members, but we should add management consultants depending on our workload. We need to go through the Microsoft documents first. We need to calculate and prepare for our Virtual Machine (VM). We need to identify the storage, memory, and CPUs for our VM. This is important because we don't want to lose our solution or have bad performance. A bad performance will affect our environment. We also need to make sure the latency is less than 12 milliseconds. This is important because the management console needs to communicate with the database. If the latency is more than 12 milliseconds, it will affect the outcome of these records and the management console will be unhealthy.
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AJITHH G
Solution Engineer at AppSmart
The scalability is of medium difficulty.
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YasirAhmed
Managed Services - System engineer at Brennan IT Pty Ltd.
I rate the product’s scalability five out of ten. Scalability must be improved. The solution is suitable for enterprise businesses.
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Mohammed Badowi
IT system manager at NBO
SCOM is scalable. We do not have an issue with the number of users or with the number of machines and the devices we are monitoring. It does not have any issues in that respect.
We support the product with a system admin team which is the only group that deals with SCOM directly for maintenance issues. Right now, the team is only five people. Even there, these five people do not use the product on a daily basis. The configuration is something that you do one time if you do it correctly. There is monitoring, which is done by the NOC team and that is ongoing.
In case some maintenance is required like a change in business requirements or addition of services, then the SCOM team will do it. This does not happen all the time. But monitoring is done by another team separate from the maintenance.
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Amar Sharma
Monitoring Systems Engineer at Monster Worldwide
The solution is scalable. It has an excellent capacity to monitor 100 to 1,000 servers, based on how the SCOM servers are provisioned. You can easily scale up your monitoring capacity.
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Bill Watts
Sr. Systems Engineer at Arapahoe County Government
The scalability is good. It's very easy to scale.
It can support up to a thousand nodes per management server, and we are nowhere near that number. I have three management servers in place for a 400-node network. Load balancing is simple, stable, quick, and efficient.
In terms of speed and agility, I believe it is significantly better than the 2012 version.
Our systems team and then the applications team, use this solution, totaling approximately 75 people within our government. We have 2,000 employees, and our IT department has about 100 people, and about 75 of them use it.
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Trevor Watkins
Server Applications Senior Administrator at Home Hardware Stores Limited
The solution is scalable. I rate it a ten out of ten.
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Robert Hedblom
Cloud and Solution Principal Architect at sumNERV Provider AB
More than 100 users are using SCOM in our organization. I rate SCOM ten out of ten for scalability.
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SergiusNkomadu
Service manager at Signal Alliance LTD
SCOM is scalable, but it can be difficult if you don't fully understand the product.
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it_user937584
Manager, Principle Systems Engineer and team lead at BCX
I think that SCOM is a very scalable solution. It depends on what hardware or virtual environment you're running on, but the scalability of SCOM is practically endless, I think. You can certainly go very far with it.
I know of a client in a banking institution that's working on 12,000 servers and their SCOM system is humming along without fail. So scalability on the environment of SCOM itself is very good, or at least it has proven to be scalable in that instance.
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OmidKoushki
Solution Architect at KIAN company
At any given time, 10 members of the IT department, all engineers, would be working on the Assistant Manager Console.
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Morne' O'Kennedy
Lead specialist at OKCIUS (Pty) Ltd
This solution is scalable and very good in terms of availability and performance capability. It is very flexible, but you need to have your training properly done beforehand. If so, then it will benefit you a lot. If you need to expand at a later stage then you can do that as well.
We currently have more than three thousand users that vary from managers to developers and engineers.
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Usama Mustafa
Solutions specialist lead at Jaffer Business Systems
For the system center, we have worked with eight to nine customers; those are mainly from the FSI side, which is the banking side. These days, we have two more customers, one from oil and gas and another from TCS, which is the biggest courier company in Pakistan.
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reviewer1423482
Group CIO at a import and exporter with 51-200 employees
The solution can scale well. It's actually more suited for larger enterprises.
We didn't have any issues with scalability.
We have about 800 users on the product currently. That's about 1,400 devices.
We use the product fairly regularly.
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Programmer Analyst at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees
No. Scalability is one of the hallmarks of SCOM. It is designed for scaling up/out.
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Amit Ben-Horin
Monitoring Systems Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
We started in a really big environment, and it did not grow, so I cannot really comment on the scalability. I don't expect our usage of this solution to increase because we are already at the maximum number of servers.
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reviewer1647066
DevOps Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The scalability potential is good. If a company needs to expand it, it can.
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Owner at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We can easily scale-up when we have a new global site. It is just so easy to extend this solution to other sites, which is an advantage.
On the IT side, we have 30 people working on this platform, and on the user side, we have 600 people. We use it every month to push down new patches.
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reviewer1566126
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Its scalability works well. In our environment, we are monitoring 150,000 Windows Servers by using System Center Operations Manager. Its usage keeps increasing.
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Molatelo Mashabela
IT SEC at a government with 10,001+ employees
Our company currently has 280 employees working on this solution and we don't have any problems. We will soon be upgrading to the newer version, as well as moving office. I am not currently monitoring any of the network devices but at our new office, I will be monitoring the network connectivity. There will probably be even more people working online than we have right now.
it_user369861
System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
There have been no issues with the scalability.
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Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
SCOM is well known for scalability so I've never faced any issue in this portion. You can add any Management Server to the existing SCOM infrastructure anytime with little down time though.
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Helder Valente
Infrastructure and Networks at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It's a scalable product. We have 1,000 users in our organization.
We have plans to continue using this solution.
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Vinicius Ribeiro
Head of IT South America at Compass Minerals
This solution is not too scalable.
it_user617970
Senior System Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
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paul zuber
Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo LLC with 51-200 employees
The scalability is good.
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Advanced Systems Engineer - 3 at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We've had no issues with scalability.
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Group IT Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have needed to increase the VM resources as we’ve added more servers and increased monitoring packs, but that’s to be expected.
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Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
SCOM is "highly available" out of the box (those are Microsoft words not mine) but it really is true, so scaling your SCOM set-up is easy, just install more SCOM servers!
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Enginsys677
Snr Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Obviously, monitoring more devices requires upgrading your SQL backing and adding new gateways.
I have worked with many monitoring solutions including CA Unicenter and SolarWinds, and the scalability of SCOM is really great. Especially compared to CA UIM, from a scalability point, Microsoft has done very well.
Given that SCOM 2019 is the last iteration of on-prem SCOM solutions, we are looking to expand into Azure with Azure monitor.
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IT Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
With SCOM 2012 R2, a single management pool deployment can handle up to 150,000 objects - according to Microsoft.
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Aymen Dridi
Systems and Virtualization Engineer at Altelios Technology Group
The scalability of SCOM is good. We can add other servers or services.
I have approximately eight IT personnel that use the solution in my company.
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reviewer1417944
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
SCOM is scalable, and it's easy to add resources.
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reviewer1260267
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
This solution is very scalable. It can change the configuration for management and performance. We have two people who use it. One is a manager and the other is an engineer.
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reviewer1381938
IT operation manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
There are less than 100 people in my organization using SCOM. It is not widely used in the company. Just some individuals from different departments.
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Information Technology Auditor at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
In terms of scalability, we increased the amount of supported devices from 50 to 150, but it's not a significant scale. I couldn't say yet how it would behave for a thousand or 2,000 devices.
We have a pretty simple setup for SCOM, we are not using any kind of clustering or virtualization.
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SCOM Specialist at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did encounter scalability issues when monitoring a large amount of network devices which turned out to have more monitored objects than expected (for instance a switch stack which is seen as one switch but turns out to have a few more ports and interfaces than a simple switch). In such cases a scale out or a second management group might provide what is needed.
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NOC Senior Technical Shift Leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
SCOM 2012 was implemented and monitored 300+ servers and various network connections. Issues that were encountered is with respect to servers which were not on the same windows domain as the SCOM servers.
it_user370203
Microsoft System Center Consultant with 10,001+ employees
I have not seen or heard of scalability issues with SCOM, the infrastructure is distributed and can be tailored to your needs at any time.
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reviewer1412814
SCOM Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees
I don't have much experience in scaling out and adding more servers, although I think that it's fairly straightforward. It may not be great, but it's better than many products.
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Endre Németh
Senior IT System Owner and System Management Specialist at MOL Plc
We have approximately fifty users at this time. The IT operations team uses this solution, and there is a manager who uses the reporting functions as well.
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Edgar Parra
Senior Technical Consultant at The Instillery
It lacks capabilities to properly monitor other devices or infrastructure that is not Microsoft based, stuff like Linux, UNIX, Cisco routers, switches. I mean, since it is not the core of the product, the monitoring capabilities on these devices is very basic if I compare it with CA Spectrum which it used to be a network product that evolved into something else to cover other critical and important areas like Application and Systems performance and Servers/Systems in general.
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IT Administrator & Major Incident Coordinator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
There were no issues scaling it.
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IT Consultant with 501-1,000 employees
Usually no, you can easily scale SCOM by adding a new server to the exiting pool of servers, it was much of a challenge in the old versions of SCOM
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Infrastructure Consultant, specialist SCCM, SCOM, VMware, Hyper-V at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
No, nothing unusual. It's very stable, more Management servers can be add later, out of box redundant, etc.
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Senior Technical Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
No. SCOM is scalable as you can add Management Servers as needed. You can also add more resources to the host server and it will not cause issues in SCOM.
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BI Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It has scaled for our needs.
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Head of ICT at JAROLA
The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage.
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Technical IT Manager at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees
No we did not.
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IT Technical Support at a local government with 501-1,000 employees
There were no issues with the scalability.
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Enginefra677
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is quite easy to add more users to the platform.
There are ten people on our team who use this solution. We are responsible for administrating different projects and we use this solution on a daily basis.
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IT Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did not encounter any scalability issues with either product.
it_user140667
Principal ICT Architect with 501-1,000 employees
Yes, but only if you decide to integrate ACS with OpsMgr. Then storage could become an issue depending on where the customer believes the security logs must come from.
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