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Your Company Host a public cloud that provides virtual machines to tenants. You manage the public cloud by using the following components: You Upgrade Service Manager to System Center 2012 R2 and you

The correct answer is A. Copy the management pack files from the VMM Server to the Operations Manager server and. To generate chargeback reports in System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager, Operations Manager must have the VMM management packs installed so it can collect virtual machine usage metrics that feed into Service Manager chargeback reporting.

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Your Company Host a public cloud that provides virtual machines to tenants. You manage the public cloud by using the following components:

You Upgrade Service Manager to System Center 2012 R2 and you import the management packs from VMM. You need to ensure that you can generate chargeback reports. What should you do?

Options

  • ACopy the management pack files from the VMM Server to the Operations Manager server and
  • BCopy the management pack files from the Service Manager management server to the Operations
  • CCopy the management pack files from the Service Manager management server to the VMM
  • DCopy the management pack files from the Operations Manager server to the VMM server and

How the community answered

(21 responses)
  • A
    67% (14)
  • B
    19% (4)
  • C
    10% (2)
  • D
    5% (1)

Why each option

To generate chargeback reports in System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager, Operations Manager must have the VMM management packs installed so it can collect virtual machine usage metrics that feed into Service Manager chargeback reporting.

ACopy the management pack files from the VMM Server to the Operations Manager server andCorrect

Copying the management pack files from the VMM server to the Operations Manager server enables Operations Manager to discover and monitor VMM-managed virtual machines, collecting the resource usage data that Service Manager requires to generate chargeback reports for cloud tenants. Without these management packs on the Operations Manager server, the monitoring and data collection pipeline for chargeback does not function.

BCopy the management pack files from the Service Manager management server to the Operations

The VMM management packs reside on the VMM server, not on the Service Manager management server, so copying from Service Manager to Operations Manager would not supply the correct management pack files.

CCopy the management pack files from the Service Manager management server to the VMM

VMM does not consume management packs for chargeback purposes - the correct data collection layer is Operations Manager, making a copy destination of VMM incorrect.

DCopy the management pack files from the Operations Manager server to the VMM server and

The data flow requires management packs to move from VMM to Operations Manager, not the reverse direction; copying from Operations Manager to VMM provides no benefit for chargeback reporting.

Concept tested: VMM management pack deployment to Operations Manager for chargeback

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scsm/deploy-chargeback?view=sc-sm-2022

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#chargeback reports#management packs#VMM integration#Operations Manager

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