Jersey Windows User Group presentation showing the benefits of System Center Advisor and highlight new features in Virtual Machine Manager 2012.

1. Jersey Windows User Group
• System Center Advisor
Ronnie Isherwood
@virtualfat

4. System Center
Virtual Machine Manager 2012

5. The trouble with vm’s

6. Service
Management
Service Templates
Application
Deployment
Custom Command
Execution
Image Based
Servicing
Services
Cloud
Management
Application Owner
Usage
Capacity and
Capability
Delegation and
Quota
Cloud
Infrastructure
Enhancements
HA VMM Server
Upgrade
Custom properties
Powershell
Deployment Fabric
Hyper-V Bare Metal
Provisioning
Hyper-V,
VMware, Citrix
XenServer
Network
Management
Storage
Management
Update
Management
Dynamic
Optimization
Power
Management
Monitoring
Integration
Fabric
Management
Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Overview

7. VMware ESX
Servers and
Clusters
Hyper-V
Servers and
Clusters
Citrix
XenServers
and Clusters
VMware
vCenter Server
VMM
Console
Library
Server
Self-Service
Portal
Server
WDS
(PXE)
Server
SQL
Server
HA VMM
Management
Servers
WSUS
Server
Web Console
Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 9
App Controller
Server
App Controller Console
Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 9

8. Demo

9. WDS server
VHD
Library server
Host profile
Bare Metal
Server
5. Run GCEs & Configure partitions
Drivers
Hyper-V
Server
VMM Server contoso
1. OOB Reboot

10. Heterogeneous scenarios
The case for and against mixing your Hypervisors
– Technology transition
• i.e. currently vSphere, moving to Hyper-V
– Broader in guest Operating System Support
– Application support
• Vendor support demands other Hypervisors
– Mergers and acquisitions

11. SCVMM 2007
• Virtual Server
2005 R2
SCVMM 2008
RTM
• Virtual Server
2005 R2
• Hyper-V RTM
• ESX 3.x
SCVMM 2008
R2 SP1
• Virtual Server
2005 R2
• Hyper-V RTM
• Hyper-V R2
• Hyper-V R2
SP1
• ESX 3.x
• ESX 4.0
(limited)
Multiple Hypervisor Support
SCVMM 2012
• Hyper-V RTM
• Hyper-V R2
• Hyper-V R2 SP1
• ESX 3.x
• ESX 4.1
• Citrix
XenServer

12. XenServer Management
• VMM has no dependency on Citrix XenCenter
Citrix XenServer(s)
Integration Pack
Storage
Repositories
SCVMM 2012 Server
SCVMM 2012 Libraries
Citrix XenCenter
Hyper-V

13. ESX Management
vCenter 4.1 Integration
• vCenter datacenter tree structure no longer imported
• Adds host and host clusters into any host group
• Support for using less privileged accounts in vCenter
vCenter SCVMM 2008 R2SCVMM 2012

14. Demo

15. Questions?
Ronnie Isherwood
@virtualfat

16. Resources
SCVMM Survival Guide - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/vmm-2012-survival-guide.aspx
SCVMM Forums- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-AU/category/virtualmachinemanager
SCVMM Error codes - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4906.aspx
SCVMM2012 Update Management Blog Series
Bare Metal deployment with SCVMM2012 and HP ILO
Ronnie Isherwood
@virtualfat