How Are Customers Using Opalis? Automate provisioning, resource allocation and retirement Extend virtual machine management to the cloud Virtual Machine Life- Cycle Management Orchestrate incident management and resolution Integrate across monitoring tools, service desks, and configuration management databases (CMDBs) Incident Management Scale automated configuration across platforms and tools Ensure reliable change with intelligent workflow branching Change and Configuration Management Integration for some System Center Products to be released in 2010

Datacenter Challenges and Goals Enable New Business Scenarios Drive IT Efficiency Reduce Costs Increase Agility

Dynamic IT Today’s challenges Your Datacenter The “Cloud” PC, Telephone, Browser Corporate applications Using the Windows platform Access via any device In your datacenter of in the cloud Lots of disconnected tools

What about DFS-Replication? Not supported to use the file server DFS-R feature to replicate VM data on a multi-site Failover Cluster DFS-R performs replication on file close: – Works well for Office documents – Not designed for application workloads where the file is held open, like VHDs or databases

Web Services on Devices Discovery Devic e Client Service Hello! Bye! Probe Probe: Printer ProbeMatch: Hey, I’m a printer! Resolve Resolve: Got an endpoint? ResolveMatc h: Sure do! Metadata Exchange

The Evolving World of Windows

Test Criteria Pillars Applications are reliable Applications use resources efficiently Applications are free of malicious software Applications do not interfere with the phone functionality Meets Microsoft standard for global content policies Meets application type guidelines Evaluated against regional policies Localization review technical validation policy validation market validation

$$ Branch – The problem space $$ 搜集整理 搜集整理 搜集整理 搜集整理

Problem Background High link utilization Poor application responsiveness Trend towards data centralization Thin, expensive WAN links between main office and branch offices

Get Get Get BranchCache Distributed Cache Get Data ID Data ID

Deployment Overview Install the optional “Windows BranchCache” component on a Windows 2008 R2 web or file server Use Group Policy to enable Windows BranchCache on Windows 7 clients IIS File Server Group Policy Management Hosted Cache Optionally, install a hosted cache in your branch. Configure clients to use it with Group Policy