Understanding the Operations Management Suite

The Operations Management Suite (OMS) includes four Azure services that can help manage hosted and on-premises resources, such as physical servers and virtual machines (VMs), and a fifth service intended to help secure resources in Azure. Multiple licensing options for the suite may be attractive to customers who have both on-premises and cloud-hosted servers or VMs, whether or not they are System Center customers. Pricing is on a subscription basis, per managed node.

OMS Overview

OMS bundles Azure-hosted services to manage systems in Azure, a third-party cloud, or on-premises. The services in OMS parallel traditional System Center server products, and the two often interoperate. OMS is increasingly Microsoft’s focus for operations management, security, and backup of servers, and it regularly receives updates and new features.

As Microsoft adds new features to OMS, organizations traditionally dependent on System Center products may find it beneficial, or even necessary, to license OMS.