System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – what's new? Tomica Kaniški, CITUS
We will talk about… Some news and improvements in Service Pack 1 for System Center 2012 family of products Virtual Machine Manager App Controller Data Protection Manager Operations Manager Orchestrator Configuration Manager Endpoint Protection Service Manager
System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager SQL Server Windows Server Manages Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 VMM – Why SP1? Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 SP R R
VMM – Infrastructure Enhancements System Center 2012System Center 2012 SP1 Hyper-V 2K8 R2 boot from VHD Configure physical Hyper-V cluster Out of band management Online patch orchestration of Hyper-V Host profiles and configuration management Bigger Clusters (16 64 nodes) Bigger hosts (64 320 cores, 1TB 4 TB) Larger VMs (64 vCPU’s, 1 TB RAM) Software Defined Networking Isolated tenant networks IP virtualization Manage Switch Extensions Logical Switch Discovery of arrays, pools, LUNs Classification of storage resources On demand assignment of storage to a service and clusters SMB3.0 and NAS support Live storage migration Multiple Live Migrations
VMM – Multi-tenancy Isolation boundaries Compute VMs Tenant administration Network Storage Permissions Resource Pool (Compute, Network, Storage) ………………… Tenant 1 Tenant 2 Tenant 3 Tenant n
VMM – User Role Profiles VMM Admin Fabric Administrator Scope: Entire system Can take any action Delegated Admin Fabric Administrator Scope: Host groups and clouds Configure fabric (hosts, networking and storage) Create cloud on fabric Assign cloud Tenant Administrator Tenant Scope: Clouds only Author VM Networks Assign cloud All other SSU settings Self-Service User Application Owner Scope: Clouds only Author templates Deploy/manage VMs and Services Share resources Revocable actions Quota as a shared and per-user limit Read-only Administrator Help Desk Scope: Host groups and clouds, No actions
DEMO User Role Profiles in System Center 2012 SP1: Virtual Machine Manager
VMM – Bare-Metal Deployment Bare-metal server WDS server VHD Drivers Host profile contoso Library server Hyper-V server OOB reboot Boot from PXE Download VHDInject drivers Authorize PXE boot Run generic command execution scripts and configure partitions Customize and domain join Enable Hyper- V Download WINPE Hyper-V server Host Group Hyper-V server Host Group VMM server Hyper-V server Host Group
VMM – Enhanced Bare Metal Deployment Deep Discovery when running WinPE Use Consistent Device Naming (CDN) Configure Logical switch (single management construct for multiple virtual switch instance) Host vNIC Configuration Increased #hosts under VMM management Physical NIC Cluster Physical NIC Teamed NIC Virtual Switch Teamed NIC Live Migration Hyper-V Host VM traffic Host vNIC
DEMO Bare-Metal Deployment in System Center 2012 SP1: Virtual Machine Manager
VMM – Storage Deploy VM’s with VHDX format Disks up to 64 TB Enhanced performance with physical disks > 512 bytes sector Added Resiliency Use of SMB 3.0 file share for stand alone/clustered host Windows File Server and NAS devices supporting SMB 3.0 Compatibility with Synthetic Fiber Channel in the guest Live Storage Migration Seamless use of ODX with capable hardware
Server Virtualization Run multiple virtual servers on a physical server Each VM has illusion it is a physical server Hyper-V – Network Virtualization Network Virtualization Run multiple virtual networks on a physical network Each virtual network has illusion it is a physical network Blue VMRed VM Virtualization Physical Server Blue NetworkRed Network Physical Network
DEMO Network Management and Isolation in System Center 2012 SP1: Virtual Machine Manager
AC – Hybrid Cloud App Controller Service Provider Cloud Public Cloud (Windows Azure) Private Cloud Enterprise Customer
AC – Deploy and Operate CLOUDS Deployment Common experience across public and private clouds Windows Azure virtual machine (SP1) Operations Start, stop, scale, remote desktop Save, resume, shutdown, checkpoint, console, store Upgrade Migration (SP1) VMM to Windows Azure
DEMO Enhancements in System Center 2012 SP1: App Controller
DPM – Enhancements in SP1 Cloud Windows Server 2012 Perf and Scale CSV 2.0 Remote SMB Data Deduplication VM Mobility DPM Backup to Cloud Increase Scale Increase Performance
DPM – Backup to Azure (1)
DPM – Backup to Azure (2) Ability to backup to Azure Well integrated into current workflows New Online Service How does it work? Customer subscribes to Online Service Deploys DPM-A bits on DPM Server Registers DPM to Online Service Create new or modify protection group
DEMO Backup to Azure in System Center 2012 SP1: Data Protection Manager
OPS – Some enhancements Platform Support Support for Windows Server 2012 Database Support on SQL Server 2012 Additional Linux Distributions supported for monitoring (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu...) New Network Monitoring Capabilities Monitoring of hundreds of new network devices with extended capabilities Virtual network monitoring (based on OM-VMM connection) Network (Virtual) Vicinity Dashboard Virtual Node Dashboard
OPS – Network (Virtual) Vicinity Dashboard (1)
OPS – Network (Virtual) Vicinity Dashboard (2)
OPS – Virtual Node Dashboard
OPS – Storage Monitoring Capabilities Based on OM-VMM connection Alerts for thin provisioning threshold events Dashboards Viewing historical capacity utilization Identifying which VMs are affected by capacity exhaustion
Orchestrator – News… Support for Windows Server 2012 & SQL Server 2012 Support for 19 languages Microsoft and 3rd party Integration Pack Investments VMware vSphere Windows Azure System Center Configuration Manager System Center Data Protection Manager System Center Operations Manager System Center Service Manager System Center Virtual Machine Manager Active Directory Exchange Admin Exchange User FTP HP iLO HP Operations Manager HP Service Manager IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Representational State Transfer (REST)
CM – Improvements, enhancements… Empower Unify Simplify Role-based Administration Distribution Point for Windows Azure Software Update Management Reduced Infrastructure Requirements Application Delivery Modern Device Management Compliance & Settings Management Endpoint Protection Unified Management of Virtual Clients Operating System Deployment Asset Intelligence, Inventory & Software Metering 2007 R3 MDM licensing Device-centric 2012 EAS User-centric New Improved Integrated Auto Remediation Improved New Improved 2012 SP1 Unified +Win 8 Apps Flexible hierarchies Improved Real-time actions User Profile and Data Improved New Improved Modern Management ConsoleNewPowerShell Client Activity and HealthImproved
CM – Distribution Point for Windows Azure Rich feature set Provision from the admin console Most capabilities as on-premise, except OSD and task sequences Custom updates App-V streaming Full BranchCache support Software Updates from Microsoft Update Integrated monitoring In console content monitoring Ability to monitor storage and traffic out usage Content is fully encrypted
EP – Enhancements Real time Endpoint Protection operations from console Simplified Administration Single administrator experience for simplified endpoint protection and management Simplified, 3X delivery of definitions through software updates Malware-driven operations from the console Client-side merge of antimalware policies Integrated optimizations for Windows Embedded clients New and improved Endpoint Protection client
SM – Chargeback Scope Virtual infrastructure compute Chargeback on allocation Pricing Basic pricing – CPU, RAM, Storage Fixed pricing – VM, Cloud Advanced pricing – IP Pool, Dynamic Disks, High Availability Granularity of 1 day Data model Chargeback cubes in Data Warehouse Reports Out-of the box Excel sample reports
SM – Price Sheet
SM – Chargeback Dashboard
We talked about… Some news and improvements in Service Pack 1 for System Center 2012 family of products Virtual Machine Manager App Controller Data Protection Manager Operations Manager Orchestrator Configuration Manager Endpoint Protection Service Manager
Service Pack 1 features
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