System Center 2012 helps you manage your IT environments across datacenters, the cloud, client computers, and devices. Using these integrated and automated management capabilities, you can become a trusted service provider. System Center captures and aggregates knowledge about systems, policies, processes, and best practices so that you can optimize your infrastructure to reduce costs, improve application availability, and enhance service delivery.
Microsoft System Center 2012 is a cloud and datacenter management solution that provides a common toolset to manage private and public cloud applications and services and:

Operations Manager provides infrastructure monitoring that is:

• Flexible and cost-effective.
• Helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications.
• Offers comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public.

System Requirements are dependent on the features installed.  Users can go to the following link to download instructions on what the hardware requirements are depending on the feature(s) they want to install:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=29270

System requirements

Supported operating systems: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2

System Center Monitoring Pack for Java EE:

• All System Center 2012 Operations Manager supported Windows server and UNIX/Linux systems.
• Other Software Required: System Center 2012 - Operations Manager

System Center 2012 - Operations Manager Sizing Helper

• Supported operating systems: Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Requirement Office Software: Microsoft Office Excel

Instructions

System Center Monitoring Pack for Java EE:

1. Download and install the msi package.
2. Follow the quick start instructions in the SC2012OM_JEE_Readme.txt.

System Center 2012 - Operations Manager Sizing Helper

1. Save the Operations Manager 2012 Sizing Helper.xls to local storage.
2. Open the Operations Manager 2012 Sizing Helper.xls.
3. In the Security Warning, click "Enable Content". The interactive functions of the sizing helper will not work if macros are not enabled.