Can’t buy SCVMM 2012 on its own

[NiCkNaMe]

Do you think it's worth deploying whole suite for small/medium size business? I'm looking after 150 desktops and about 15 servers.

On a personal level (e.g. for your own development) then yes if you've got the licensing model in place! Going to be big demand for SC skills over the next few years.

If I was advising you professionally, I'd personally be looking at a cloud offering for that size org which with an MS hat on would be Intune and Advisor. They would do the job for you. Then use Hyper-V Server 2012 (once released) in a 2 node cluster for hosting your server, perhaps with Hyper-V replica to a third site (or co-lo) for your DR.

 

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On a personal level (e.g. for your own development) then yes if you've got the licensing model in place! Going to be big demand for SC skills over the next few years.

If I was advising you professionally, I'd personally be looking at a cloud offering for that size org which with an MS hat on would be Intune and Advisor. They would do the job for you. Then use Hyper-V Server 2012 (once released) in a 2 node cluster for hosting your server, perhaps with Hyper-V replica to a third site (or co-lo) for your DR.

Thanks, will have a look into cloud services.

We're not currently licensed for SC and purchasing it now would a bit harder with recent Microsoft price hike on volume licensing.