Fight Night: System Center vs. OMS Marcel Zehner CTO @itnetX Microsoft MVP & RD marcelzehner.ch @marcelzehner Thomas Maurer Architect @itnetX Microsoft MVP thomasmaurer.ch @thomasmaurer

The Rules

The Rules 10 rounds of boxing 10-point scoring system Round winner  10 points Round looser  9 points Knockdown or rules violation  1 point deduction Knockdown and count to ten  K.O. Repeated rules violation might result in disqualification Special rule: Workplace topics are banned from the ring 

Let’s get ready to rumble!

General Overview Microsoft System Center Suite of systems management components Management Layer: SCVMM, SCOM, SCDPM, SCCM Orchestration/Automation Layer: SCORCH Service Management Layer: SCSM On the market for many years Lots of customer implementations On Premises solution Can be run in the cloud (IaaS), but no real added value

General Overview Microsoft OMS Suite of operations components Insights & Analytics Automation & Control Security & Compliance Protection & Recovery Available since mid-2015 Now growing (big) in the market Cloud-only solution, will never be available on premises Microsoft.com/oms

On Premises vs. Cloud On premises products Many different versions and states available 2007, 2012, 2012R2, 2016 Service Packs & Update Rollups Investment in infrastructure (CAPEX) Deployment takes time and costs money Platform must be maintained Full control and flexibility

On Premises vs. Cloud Cloud products Microsoft Azure facts More than 30 regions and more to come 50 billion+ investment Innovative, available instantly and secure The cloud helps you fight shadow IT Very broad spectrum Azure offers more than 600(!) services

On Premises vs. Cloud Cloud products OMS facts Highly, standardized service, 1 version available Low CAPEX Ready in less than 5 minutes Platform maintained by cloud provider Limited extensibility Must follow the service

Monitoring Microsoft SCOM Comprehensive event management & alerting platform Hardware, server and applications monitoring Distributed apps, APM X-Platform

Monitoring Microsoft SCOM New in SCOM 2016 Many new MPs (Nano, Storage, O365 etc.) Extended X-Platform monitoring (LAMP stack) Extended network monitoring Monitoring of SDN Scheduled maintenance mode (GUI) MP discoverability (MP suggestions) Data driven Alerts (noise reduction) HTML5 web console VSAE for Visual Studio 2015

Monitoring OMS Collects events from different sources VMs, SCOM, Azure Storage, Office 365 HTTP data collector API Comprehensive search & filtering Alerting feature Queries can result in alerts Send mail Trigger OMS/Azure Automation runbook or webhook No alert states and alert tracking

Operational Insights & Analytics Microsoft System Center Collect lots of data Databases, CMDB, DWH Nice and shiny consoles Offers standard reports Mostly SSRS, old school Very static & inflexible Creating reports from scratch can be VERY time consuming

Operational Insights & Analytics Microsoft OMS Collects events from different sources VMs, SCOM, Azure Storage, Office 365 HTTP data collector API Comprehensive search & filter capabilities Real-time searches through millions of data Saved queries, favorites Create dashboards Data can be forwarded to PowerBI Flexible reports and dashboards that can be shared

Fabric/VM Management Microsoft SCVMM Manage SDDC Storage Compute Network Deploy and manage fabric workloads VMs

Fabric/VM Management Microsoft SCVMM New in SCVMM 2016 Storage management Storage Spaces Direct management Software Defined Networking HVNv2 Nano support

Fabric/VM Management Microsoft OMS No fabric management available today Cannot connect to the on premises fabric Basic monitoring of the fabric hosts Basic monitoring of deployed VMs Basic monitoring of storage components (logfiles)

Orchestration/Automation Microsoft SCORCH and SMA IT processes automation SCORCH Integration packs to integrate with other platforms System Center Vmware Many others GUI with visualized processes SMA Powershell workflows No GUI

Orchestration/Automation Microsoft OMS Uses Azure Automation Highly scalable automation platform IT process automation  Powershell scripts or workflows Limited GUI Azure workers, hybrid worker groups (on premises) Desired state configuration (DSC)  Azure Automation pull server Declarative approach No configuration drifts

Backup & Protection Microsoft SCDPM Application aware backups SQL, SPS, Exchange File backup System or full backups of physical servers Hyper-V backup for VMs (Windows, Linux) Stores backup data On disk On tape On Azure

Backup Microsoft SCDPM New in SCDPM 2016 Much better performance (ReFS) Hyper-V Storage Spaces Direct support Hyper-V with ReFS SOFS Cluster Storage savings of up to 50%

Backup Microsoft OMS Uses Azure Backup Uses Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Backup data to cloud Azure Backup Server for on premises SCDPM functionality to configure backups locally which sends data to Azure Uses Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Protect local VMs with the cloud Replica of VMs run on Azure Started as needed Automatically or manually (test failover)

Service Management Microsoft SCSM ITSM with most common processes Incident/Problem Management Request Fulfillment Change Management Release Management Knowledge Management Self Service Catalog with Portal Automation Integration

Service Management Microsoft SCSM New in SCSM 2016 HTML5 self service portal Significant performance improvements Lync 2013 & Skype for Business support

Service Management Microsoft OMS Nothing available today …

Extensibility Microsoft System Center Lots of extensibility options Management Packs, Integration Packs etc. SDKs available Many tools Visual Studio Authoring Extensions Some components are missing web services

Extensibility Microsoft OMS Limited extensibility OMS solutions Azure Automation Powershell modules Azure APIs Azure SDK More options available in the future

Enemies but still good friends Use the best of both worlds OMS/System Center licensing supports you here! Protect existing System Center investments Use additional OMS features Insights & Analytics Solutions (many to come soon!) Backup and DR to cloud (site failover) Automation and DSC

Starting the journey | Modern management Enemies but still good friends Operations Management Suite Azure | O365 | AWS Log Analytics Automation Disaster recovery Backup System Center Monitor | Automate | Provision | Protect | Self-service Linux VMWare Storage Network Starting the journey | Modern management

Overall Bout Scoring

95 95 Score Microsoft System Center Microsoft Operations Management Suite 95 95

It’s a Draw!

Fight Night: System Center vs. OMS Marcel Zehner CTO @itnetX Microsoft MVP & RD marcelzehner.ch @marcelzehner Thomas Maurer Architect @itnetX Microsoft MVP thomasmaurer.ch @thomasmaurer