2. Planet Azure: starship System
Center exploring new worlds
Maarten Goet
System Center MVP

3. MVP

4. Agenda
• Welkom
• Azure
• Windows Server 2012
• System Center
• Cross Platform
• Dashboards
• Capacity Management
• Demo’s 
• Q&A

5. Cloud? It’s all about the App!

6. Services

7. Public Cloud
App App App App VM VM VM VM VM
App App App App VM VM VM VM VM
Microsoft .NET VM VM VM VM VM

8. demo
Windows Azure

9. Private Cloud
Compute

10. demo
Windows Server 2012

11. Unified management for the Cloud

12. Scenario
“Contoso Bank is running a business critical Trading floor
application Stocktrader, for which we guarantee
99,999% uptime”
 System Center is the platform of choice
 We need to monitor all app components across all platforms
 Provide insights for both IT administrators as well as CIO

13. Operations Manager
Network Virtualization
OpsMgr Cloud
(Application) Services
Operating Systems

14. Management Packs
App #1 App #2
Active Directory DNS IIS Clustering
Operating System
Virtualization
Compute
Network

15. Cross Platform
Applications
Operating Systems

16. demo
Cross Platform Monitoring

17. Deep insights
 APM in OpsMgr is a lightweight profiler
 Monitors applications in production
 Isolate and triage issues
 Provide the application team with the details they need
• Performance
Triage • System state
event • Isolate tier • Event details
• Exception event • Assign owner
Detect Diagnose

18. Maarten Goet
Deep insights Mark Eveleens - Available
Database Administrator
 APM in OpsMgr is a lightweight profiler
 Monitors applications in production
Mark Eveleens
 Isolate and triage issues Hi Maarten, I wanted to update you on Stocktrader.
 Provide the application team with Goet details they needCan this wait?
Maarten
the
Mark, I’m in the middle of something.
Mark Eveleens
Well, I know your team is doing proactive monitoring of
the Stocktrader service, and we just added some Oracle
instances to the backend you might want to add to
• Performance
Triage
Operations Manager. • System state
event Maarten • Isolate tier
Goet • Event details
• Exception event Thanks for updating us. We’ll add them now so we stay
• Assign owner
in control from end to end.
DetectMark, I’m inupdating us. of something. Can this wait?
Diagnose
Thanks for the middle We’ll add them now so we stay
in control from end to end.

19. demo
Oracle Monitoring

20. Various layers of monitoring

21. demo
CIO dashboards

22. Maarten Goet
Vincent de Vries - Available
Capacity Manager
Vincent de Vries
Hi Maarten, do you have a second?
Maarten Goet
Actually Vincent, I’m quite busy at the moment.
demo Vincent de Vries
It’s quite urgent. I’m not sure if we can meet the
Stocktrader SLA. We’re getting signals that the capacity
might be insufficient. Can SC OpsMgr show forecasts of
the app components and fabric?
Maarten Goet
CIO dashboards
Actually yes, SC OpsMgr can do that. Given the urgency,
I’ll set up the dashboards for you right now.
Actually Vincent, I’m quite busy at the moment.urgency,
Actually yes, SC OpsMgr can do that. Given the
I’ll set up the dashboards for you right now.

23. Capacity Management
“Capacity Management is a process used to manage
IT. Its primary goal is to ensure that IT capacity
meets current and future business requirements in a
cost-effective manner. ITIL version 3 views capacity
management as comprising three sub-processes:”
 Business capacity management
 Service capacity management
 Component capacity management

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28. demo
Capacity Management

29. New in OpsMgr 2012 SP1
 Global Service Monitor
 ACS support for Dynamic Access Control
 APM: Monitoring Windows Services built on .NET
 APM: Monitoring of front-end components of SharePoint
 APM: Integration with TFS 2010 and TFS 2012
 APM: Conversion of events to IntelliTrace format
 New MPs and support for Windows Server 2012 and IIS 8
 360 .NET Application Monitoring Dashboards

30. Cloud on your terms Enterprise
Mid-market
Automated
Small Business Virtualization &
Automated Management,
Virtualization & Private Cloud
Virtualization Management
Management
Virtualization
First Server
Windows Server
System Center 3
0
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31. Bedankt! Vragen?

32. System Center trainingen!