System Center 2012 R2 Overview Speaker Name Date
3 Agenda System Center: Unified management for the Cloud OS System Center momentum Customer needs and opportunities System Center 2012 R2 solution and capability overview Why choose System Center 2012 R2 Next steps Appendix
System Center: Unified management for the Cloud OS
Transforming IT to address new questions
Customer Service Provider Microsoft Consistent Platform ONE With Microsoft’s Cloud OS vision, customers can…
Windows Server Windows Azure Microsoft cloud experience
Windows Server Windows Azure Bringing our learning to your datacenter Windows Server Windows Azure and many others….
Customer challenges and opportunitie s
Enterprise- class Simple and cost-effective Application focused Requirement to provide scalable and reliable services. Always-on expectations of the business. IT budget pressure even with increasing expectations. Complex IT environments that are tough to manage. Volume of Web and cloud applications continues to rise. Evolution of applications to hybrid cloud deployment models. Customer challenges and opportunities
System Center Unified management for the Cloud OS App Controller Service Manager Service model Orchestrator Service Manager Service admin Customers Microsoft Customer Service Provider
System Center 2012 R2 capability overview
Infrastructure provisioning Enterprise-class multi- tenant infrastructure for hybrid environments System Center capabilities Application performance monitoring Deep insight into application health Automation and self-service Application-owner agility while IT retains control IT service management Flexible service delivery Infrastructure monitoring Comprehensive monitoring of physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure System Center 2012 R2 solution overview
Utilize a single tool for on-premises and cloud provisioning Infrastructure provisioning Effectively manage virtual environments at-scale Reduce infrastructure complexity Deliver efficient infrastructure services across customer base IT demands System Center 2012 R2 delivers Enterprise-class virtualization management with robust Linux support Simplified provisioning & migration Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure Extend familiar management to Windows Azure Enterprise- class multi- tenant infrastructure for hybrid environments
System Center supports enterprise-class scale and performance
Complete virtualization-management VMM support for automated Hyper-V cluster upgrades without downtime. Snapshot running VM without downtime. Flexible storage provisioning & management Windows Server file-based storage and Storage Spaces, including bare metal file server cluster provisioning. VM connectivity into fibre-channel SAN storage. Robust Linux in-guest support Greater VM density per host with Dynamic Memory support. File-level VM backups, restore full VMs. Generation 2 VM support Enterprise-class management, open source support
Innovation: Support for Gen-2 virtual machines in Hyper-V Ease of Management & Operations PXE boot from Optimized vNIC. Hot-Add CD/DVD Drive. Dynamic Storage VMs have UEFI firmware with support forGPT partitioned OS boot disks >2TB. Faster Boot from Virtual SCSI with Online.Resize & increased performance. Security Removal of emulated devices reducesattack surface. VM UEFI firmware supports Secure Boot. VMs built on optimized, software-based devices
Simplified infrastructure service delivery In-box service templates and runbooks for System Center components. Integration of existing investments using web-based interfaces to System Center capabilities. Management scaled across multiple System Center instances or “stamps”. Extensible service management automation. Tenant-level resource metering for capacity planning and usage analytics. Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure Tenant admin/users APIs
CMDB Ticketing Billing Management Systems VIRTUAL MACHINE CLOUDS 12 SQL SERVER 9 PLANS 12 WEBSITE CLOUD 12 MYSQL SERVERS 0 NOTIFICATIONS 0 USER ACCOUNTS 4 AUTOMATION 8 ALL ITEMS Add bulk user accounts Service ticket for failed resources Notify users of plan updates Add additional SQL capacity Integration Workflow automation Web-based authoring Enable efficient infrastructure delivery and operations Web-based runbook authoring. Scalable, multi-tenant-aware automation engine built on Windows PowerShell. Import existing Windows PowerShell scripts and workflows. Integration with existing or third-party systems. Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure: service management automation
Granular metering of resource usage by tenant, including CPU, memory, and storage. Enable business and operational insight with tenant-level analytics. Data warehousing and reporting, including allocation, utilization, and license compliance views. Integration with Cloud Cruiser cost analytics solution for chargeback. Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure: capacity planning and usage analytics
Open, extensible, and standards-based solution delivers flexibility, automation, and control At-scale management of virtual networks on shared physical networks. Multi-tenant edge gateway for seamless, highly-available physical and virtual network connectivity. Easy remote access into virtualized service provider network for tenants. OMI-based plug-in for automated TOR switch configuration. Partner ecosystem support. Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure: virtual networks /24 Blue company
VM management (e.g. start, stop) Migrate VM: On-premises to Windows Azure Migrate VM: Windows Azure to on-premises Extend familiar System Center to manage Windows Azure virtual machines
IT demands System Center 2012 R2 delivers Monitor diverse environments Assure physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure health Ensure reliable workload configurations Infrastructure monitoring Best-of-breed Windows monitoring, robust cross- platform support Network monitoring and cloud infrastructure health Best-practice workload configuration Comprehensive monitoring of physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure
Windows Server 2012 VMware vSphere Deep infrastructure and workload insight
Automation and self-service IT demands System Center 2012 R2 delivers Empower app owners while retaining control Common management tools for on-premises and cloud Dynamically expand capacity to support app SLA Self-service app provisioning, incl. multitenant environments Unified management views & artifacts b/w Windows Server & Azure Scale application tiers via automation & integration Application agility while IT retains control
Simplified application provisioning
Drive agility with SharePoint service templates Daniele Grandini, Executive, Progel IT “Each workload in our R&D environment will have its own template, so when we need to deploy, for example, a SharePoint test environ- ment, the virtual machine will be ready to go with all the tiers and resources needed.”
Scalable multi-VM tenant services for Windows Server with Windows Azure-consistent user experience
Unified management view across clouds Flexible delegation with single sign-on Self-service visibility for application services across on-premises, service provider, and Windows Azure Easy VM and workload portability from on-premises to Windows Azure (including SharePoint and SQL)
Application performance monitoring IT demands System Center 2012 R2 delivers Assure Line of Business (LOB) application SLA Enable rapid application lifecycle Assure great end-user experiences and Microsoft workload health Deep application insight Integrated dev-ops that spans people, process and systems Cloud-integrated insight in familiar monitoring console Deep insight into application health
The DevOps disconnect
Deep application insight for.NET applications
Java Tomcat app server support (v5.5, v6 and v7). Windows and RHEL/SUSE Linux guest OS support. Multiple instrumented Java frameworks, including web services and database connectors. Code-level traceability with performance and exception metrics. Deep application insight for Java Applications
Java EE monitoring-supported platforms
Azure-integrated insight with Global Service Monitor (GSM) ! Customer datacenter
Case study—Deep application insight Murat Demirkiran, DenizBank, Turkey “With System Center 2012, we have deeper insight into application performance, which means that we can load-balance cloud resources to deliver maximum performance and avert application failures.”
Case study—DevOps productivity Ashley Vail, Director of Engineering, India Development “By using System Center 2012 SP1, our developers are far more effective and can get more done. This is improving efficiency and productivity by approximately 40 percent.”
Overcoming the DevOps disconnect Comprehensive monitoring Deep application diagnostics Quick isolation of root cause with line-of-code level insight Process and tool-driven collaboration “It’s great for us that Visual Studio 2012 Lab Manager leverages Systems Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager, which is a full private cloud management solution. Deployment of applications such as SQL Server are now fully automated through application templates.” —Joe Chiu, Software Development Engineer, Xbox Live, Microsoft Corporation (in the context of Xbox Live being able to reduce release cycles from months to days)
IT service management IT demands System Center 2012 R2 delivers Enable easy publishing and consumption of IT services Integrate people, process and knowledge Efficient resource utilization and SLA tracking Self-service requests for private cloud capacity Industry-standard service management and process workflows Business and operational insight Flexible service delivery
Business and operational insight with chargeback $ Virtual Machine/day $ Cloud Membership/day $ Virtual Machine CPU Core/day $ Virtual Machine Memory GB/day $ Virtual Machine Storage GB/day Price Sheet
Best-in-class performance and scale for Microsoft workloads. Multi-tenant virtual networking, including edge gateway provisioning to bridge physical and virtual networks. Support for VM connectivity into virtual Fiber Channel SAN. Multi-hypervisor support, including Hyper- V, VMware, and Citrix. Robust open source support: Dynamic Memory for Linux, Unix/ Linux monitoring and configuration. Unified monitoring for on-premises and Windows Azure infrastructure. In-box service templates and runbooks for System Center components. Web-based interfaces to System Center capabilities. Standards-based top-of-rack network switch configuration. Windows Server file-based storage and Storage Spaces support. Extensible service management automation and integration. Workload protection and recovery across datacenters with Windows Azure. Hyper-V Recovery Manager. Easy VM portability and management between Windows Server and Windows Azure. Deep.NET and Java application monitoring and diagnostics. Standardized app provisioning with service templates. Integrated dev-ops with System Center- Visual Studio connector. Cloud-integrated app and workload insight with Global Service Monitor and System Center Advisor. Management Packs with extensive built-in knowledge for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint. Why choose System Center 2012 R2 Enterprise- class Simple and cost-effective Application focused
Next steps: transform your datacenter
Appendix
System Center 2012 R2: Unified Management for the Cloud OS Application focused 1.Multi-hypervisor clouds 2.Multi-tenant virtual networks 3.SAN and file-based storage management 4.Robust Linux support 5.Process automation & integration 6.APM for.NET and Java apps 7.Cloud-integrated monitoring & dev-ops 8.VM portability across clouds 9.Service Provider Foundation 10.Service templates Enterprise-class Simple and cost-effective
What’s new in System Center 2012 R2
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