Hi All,
please excuse the rookie question but I am performing my first installation of both SCCM and SCSM for my organization and I am not quite sure how to handle the design.
Essentially my issue is that we are not having an abundance of disk space right now, and in looking at the typical design documentation I am thinking I will need at least 4 servers to implement both of these tools, the thing is, we only have 400 PCs which means that the Data Warehouse solution would appear to be massively over-engineered and I won't get access to the reporting tools without the Data Warehouse.
What I would like to do is run both tools without a Data Warehouse or at least put the Data Warehouse on the same server which for that number of clients should be fine, however there are issues trying to install both on the same server.
So the question is basically, is there a way to get both the data warehouse and the operations databases on the same servers or perhaps share the SCCM and SCOM data warehouses on the same server so I only need one Data Warehouse server?
If not, Are there any real implications for not using a Data Warehouse aside from the lack of reporting? I am a little nervous that maybe data in the operations server may be discarded under the assumption that "after xxx days" it won't be needed any more and that it "should be in the data warehouse for reporting".
If I can run without a data warehouse I may just build a simple reporting web page for a few key reports or something.
Thanks