Operations Manager 2012 server features require a supported operating system. For a list of the supported operating systems for each server feature, see theRequirements by Feature section in this document.
Note the following database considerations for Operations Manager 2012:
Operations Manager 2012 does not support a 32-bit Operations Manager Operations database, Reporting Server data warehouse, or Audit Collection database, or SQL Server Reporting Services on a 64-bit operating system.
The use of SQL Server 2008 R2 is supported for both new installations of Operations Manager 2012 and SQL Server 2008 R2 database upgrades.
Using a different version of SQL Server for different Operations Manager 2012 features is not supported. The same version should be used for all features.
SQL collation for all databases must be SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS; no other collation configurations are supported.
The SQL Server Agent service must be started, and the startup type set to automatic.
If you plan to use the Network Monitoring features of Operations Manager 2012, you should move the tempdb database to a separate disk that has multiple spindles. For more information, see tempdb Database.