Monitor Servers from separate SCOM instances

Quick question regarding SCOM 2012. I have had to design a single physical SCOM 2012R2 setup for a company which also has SQL installed locally. This was against my recommendations but business and cost requirements have dictated this. We have 2 datacentres,
DC1 and DC2. DC1 is the primary and DC2 is the DR site. They are looking for some kind of high availbility, can anyone advise if the following is possible:
2 single server SCOM instances, one at DC1 and the other at DC2 both with SQL installed locally
Monitor the servers at DC1 and DC2 from both instances using multi-homed agents
Would this be possible? I appreciate this would add administrative overhead but cant think of any other way to possibly do this due to only having a single server at each DC.

for building up high availability solution of SCOM 2012 r2, you should built two managment server, one managemnet server,MS1, locate in site DC1 and other,MS2, is located in site DC2. SCOM agents in DC1 report to MS1 and SCOM agents in DC2 report to MS2.
All agents should be configured autofailover to other Managemtn server. For a high availability of DB, you may refer to high availability solution on DB by using AlwaysOn Availability Groups.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh920812.aspx
Roger

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