An overview on System Center 2012 I gave on the Infrastructure & Management User Group

1. IaaS
Technical Overview

2. Infrastructure & Management User Group
 Once a month
 Next Date – 18.3 @ 17:30 @ Microsoft Ra’anana
How to achieve the most out of your TS environment
Hyper-V Tips & Tricks

3. Infrastructure & Management User Group
 Registration - http://infra.eventbrite.com
 Updates -
http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=2389097

4. Server Application Virtualization
System Center App Controller
Data Protection Manager 2012

6. Orchestrator
Service Manager
Orchestration CMDB, Incident,
Run Book Problem, Release
Automation, Mgmt, Service
Integration Request
Virtual Workload
Provisioning, Multi
Backup & Disaster
Hypervisor, Cloud
Recovery
Mgmt, Self
Service
App Controller
Performance, OS / Software
Health, Network, Deploy, Patching
Application and Settings
Monitoring, Best Mgmt, 3rd party
Practices OS

8. Deployment Fabric Cloud Services
Fabric
Infrastructure
Management
Enhancements
Hyper-V Bare
HA VMM Update
Server Metal
Management
Provisioning
Hyper-V,
Dynamic
Upgrade VMware, Xen,
Optimization
KVM
Network Power
Custom Management Management
properties
Storage Cluster
Powershell Management Management

9. Dynamic Optimization
Dynamic Optimization (DO) and Enhanced
Placement
 Cluster level workload balancing scheme
 No dependency on Operations Manager
 Leverages live migration to move workloads
 Over 100 placement checks/validation, Support for
custom placement rules
 Multiple VM placement (service)

12. • Includes machine definitions as well as applications
• Supported application types:
• Web Applications (WebDeploy)
Service • Virtual Applications (Server App-V Package)
• Database Applications (SQL DAC)
• Starting point for services and source of truth
• Specifies machine and connectivity requirements
Template • Deployed services are always linked to their templates
• Updates to services must be applied by changing the
template first

14. Services
Customer Microsoft Partner
App Controller
VMM 2012
VMM 2012
Windows VMM 2012
Windows VMM 2012
Fabric
Azure VMM 2012 Windows Azure VMM Future
Platform Hyper-V, VMware, Xen Azure Platform Hyper-V, VMware, Xen
Appliance Appliance
Hyper-V, VMware, Xen
Hyper-V, VMware, Xen
Hyper-V, VMware, Hyper-V, VMware,
Xen, KVM Xen, KVM
App Controller 1.0
Customer Problems Addressed
1. Self-service agility and empowerment for application owners
2. Bring service management across multiple clouds under IT management
processes
3. Visibility and control into services deployed in multiple clouds
Windows Azure – Public Cloud
Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

20. Administrator Experience
 Common look and feel across
System Center products
 Improve discoverability
 Only show what is relevant
 Complete scenarios within
the console
 Simplified navigation
 Consolidated elements

21. Client Health
 Server-side metrics covering policy requests, HW & SW
Inventory, Heartbeat, Data Discovery Record (DDRs)
and Status Messages
 Customizable monitoring/remediation for:
 Client prerequisites
 SCCM client reinstallation
 Dependent Windows Services
 WMI Repository, Namespace, Class, and Instance
health evaluation and repair
 In-console alerts when healthy/unhealthy ratio drops
below configurable threshold

22. Application Lifecycle
Application
Installation
New Application
Remove Application Update Application
Application Application
Uninstall Revision
Retire Application Replace Application
Application Application
Retirement Supersedence

25. (Console, Web, SharePoint)
End User Experience
(Synthetic Transactions)
Consistent UX
Application Monitoring
(.NET, J2E)
Infrastructure Monitoring
(OS, SQL, IIS)
Infrastructure Monitoring
(Network)

30. IT Process Automation
Lower costs and simplify processes in the
datacenter through automation
Fast value with pre-packaged workflow expertise
and integration
Extends and integrates with System Center today
Grant for Opalis technology for new and existing
SMSE / SMSD customers
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/opalis.aspx

32. Compliance Release Asset
& Risk Mgmt
Change Problem Incident
Service Request
Configuration Forms
Self-Service Management DB
Portal
Configuration
Knowledge
Work Items
Items
Workflows
Data
Warehouse
CSV
Exchange 2007, 2010

35. Online Snapshots (up to 512)
Active Disk-based
Directory® Recovery
System
State
Data Protection
Manager
Up to
Every 15 minutes
Data Protection Disaster Recovery
Manager with offsite replication & tape
Tape-based
Backup
file
services

38. IaaS
Technical Overview