1. Windows 2012R2 Hyper-V and System Center 2012
Todd Endicott

2. Agenda What is System Center? Overview of System Center components
Use of Virtual Machine Manger
How can System Center help you
Azure?

3. What is in System Center 2012?

4. What is in System Center 2012?
System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Configuration Manager increases IT productivity and efficiency by reducing manual tasks and letting you focus on high-value projects, maximize hardware and software investments, and empower end-user productivity by providing the right software at the right time. Configuration Manager helps you deliver more effective IT services by enabling secure and scalable software deployment, compliance settings management, and comprehensive asset management of servers, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices.

5. What is in System Center 2012?
System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Device Management (BYOD as well)
Flexible OS deployment
Compliance and settings management
Asset intelligence and inventory
Application delivery
Patch Management (WSUS)
Client health and monitoring

6. What is in System Center 2012?
Systems Center Operations Manager (Formerly MOM)
Operations Manager enables you to monitor services, devices, and operations for many computers in a single console. Operators can gain rapid insight into the state of the IT environment and the IT services running across different systems and workloads by using numerous views that show state, health, and performance information, as well as alerts generated for availability, performance, configuration and security situations.

7. What is in System Center 2012?
Systems Center Operations Manager (Formerly MOM)
Infrastructure and application monitoring and alerting
3rd party workload monitoring (In addition to Microsoft)
Cloud monitoring (Azure)
System state, health and performance information

8. What is in System Center 2012?
System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)
Centralized backup for VMs and applications
Item-level recovery for VMs
Archiving backup data to Azure
Full, incremental, differentials and bare-metal backups are supported

9. What is in System Center 2012?
Systems Center Orchestrator
Orchestrator is a workflow management solution for the data center. Orchestrator enable you automate the creation, monitoring, and deployment of resources in your environment.
Workflow automation
Visual Runbook authoring
Cross-platform workflow integration

10. What is in System Center 2012?
System Center Service Manager (SCCM)
Service Manager provides an integrated platform for automating and adapting your organization’s IT service management best practices, such as those found in Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). It provides built-in processes for incident and problem resolution, change control, and asset lifecycle management.

11. What is in System Center 2012?
System Center Service Manager (SCCM) cont.
Service catalog
Self-service request portal
Release and SLA management
Data warehousing and reporting
Incident and change requests

12. What is in System Center 2012?
App Controller
App Controller provides a common self-service experience that can help you easily configure, deploy, and manage virtual machines and services across private and public clouds.
Cross cloud provisioning
VM and application self-service

13. What is in System Center 2012?
Endpoint Protection
Malware protection, identification, and remediation

14. What is in System Center 2012?
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
Virtual Machine Manager is a management solution for the virtualized datacenter, enabling you to configure and manage your virtualization host, networking, and storage resources in order to create and deploy virtual machines and services to private clouds that you have created.

15. What is in System Center 2012?
System Center Virtual Machine Manger (VMM)
VM and private cloud management
Storage and network management
Heterogeneous VM host support
Template driven workload deployment

16. Lets talk VMM Where to install? Stand-alone, VM, Clustered?
What do you need? Windows 2012R2, full SQL instance, VMM
DPAPI (Keys vs. Passwords)
Install issues (Key Management) (Highly available?)
Port usage (Configurable) (See Screen Shot)
Run-as Accounts (DPAPI)

17. VMM

18. VMM
Which tool do I use to manage my VM’s?
Virtual Machine Manager

19. VMM Pitfalls of multiple tools This takes time to get it right!!
Just one component of a powerful suite.
Can be utilized with a variety of platforms. (VMWare, Citrix, Linux, 3rd party cloud)
Very comparable to VMWare VCenter

20. Glossary of Terms Term Definition Application Frameworks resources
A set of programs, Windows PowerShell cmdlets, and scripts that enable users to install virtual applications and Web applications during the deployment of a service.
application profile
A Virtual Machine Manager library resource that contains instructions for installing Microsoft Server App-V, the Web Deploy tool, and Microsoft SQL Server data-tier applications and for running scripts when you deploy a virtual machine as part of a service.
capability profile
A Virtual Machine Manager library resource that defines which resources (for example, number of processors or maximum memory) are available to a virtual machine that is created in a private cloud.
cloud library
A grouping of read-only library shares that are assigned to a private cloud and a location where self-service users of a private cloud can store virtual machines or services.
dynamic optimization
The capability to perform resource balancing by automatically migrating virtual machines within host clusters that support live migration.
equivalent objects
Different files (for example, .vhd files) on which a user has set the same family and release properties to indicate that the different files are related.
fabric
In VMM, the infrastructure resources (for example, virtual machine hosts, networking, and storage) that are used to create and deploy virtual machines and services to a private cloud.
host profile
A Virtual Machine Manager library resource that contains hardware and operating system configuration settings to convert a bare-metal computer to a managed Hyper-V host.

21. Glossary of Terms instance count
The number of virtual machines to deploy for a given tier of a service.
logical network
A user-defined named grouping of IP subnets and virtual local area networks (VLANs) that is used to organize and simplify network assignments.
orphaned resource
A Virtual Machine Manager library resource on a library server that has been removed from VMM, but the resource is still used in a virtual machine template or a service template.
physical resource
A file (for example, .vhd files or script) that can be imported into or exported from the Virtual Machine Manager library.
power optimization
The capability to automatically turn off a virtual host machine that is not needed to meet resource requirements within a host cluster and then turn the virtual host machine back on when it is needed again.
private cloud
A grouping of virtual machine hosts and networking, storage, and library resources that is assigned to users to deploy services.
Read-Only Administrator user role
A role that is used to limit users to only viewing status, job status, and properties of objects within their assigned host groups, private clouds, and library servers. A Read-Only Administrator cannot create new objects.
read-only library share
A library share that is assigned to a private cloud and that is used to share resources to self-service users that deploy services to that private cloud.
scale out (a service)
To add additional virtual machines to a tier of a deployed service.
Self-Service User Content
A node in the Library workspace that displays the resources (for example, .vhd files and scripts) that self-service users have uploaded for authoring templates and for sharing with other self-service users.
service
A set of virtual machines that are configured and deployed together and are managed as a single entity. For example, a deployment of a multi-tier line-of-business application.
Service Deployment Configurations
A node in the Library workspace where you can view instances of services that have been saved (during the process of configuring specific deployment settings for the service instance) but have not been deployed.

22. Glossary of Terms service template
A Virtual Machine Manager library resource that contains the configuration settings used to deploy each tier of a service.
Service Template Designer
A graphical tool in the VMM console that is used to create and modify service templates.
servicing window
A user-defined time period that can be assigned to a virtual machine, host, or service to indicate when that object is available to be taken offline (for example, to perform maintenance).
SQL Server profile
A Virtual Machine Manager library resource that contains instructions for customizing an instance of Microsoft SQL Server for a SQL Server data-tier application (DAC) when you deploy a virtual machine as part of a service.
storage classification
A user-defined name assigned to a storage pool that is used to describe the particular capabilities of the storage pool.
tier
An element of a service template that contains the configuration settings necessary to deploy a particular portion of a service.
upgrade domain
A group in which Virtual Machine Manager automatically places instances of a tier of a service so that when the service is updated, those instances will be updated at the same time.
virtual IP template
A template that contains configuration settings for how a load balancer should handle a specific type of network traffic.

23. VMM

24. How many administrators?
User Role Descriptions for VMM
VMM User Role
Capabilities
Administrator
Members of the Administrators user role can perform all administrative actions on all objects that VMM manages.
Administrators have sole responsibility for these features of VMM:
Only administrators can add stand-alone XenServer hosts and XenServer clusters (known as pools) to VMM management.
Only administrators can add a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server to VMM to enable updates of the VMM fabric through VMM.
To change the members of the Administrator user role, see How to Add Users to the Administrator User Role in VMM.
Fabric Administrator (Delegated Administrator)
Members of the Delegated Administrator user role can perform all administrative tasks within their assigned host groups, clouds, and library servers, except for adding XenServer and adding WSUS servers. Delegated Administrators cannot modify VMM settings, and cannot add or remove members of the Administrators user role.
To create a delegated administrator, see How to Create a Delegated Administrator User Role in VMM.
Read-Only Administrator
Read-only administrators can view properties, status, and job status of objects within their assigned host groups, clouds, and library servers, but they cannot modify the objects. Also, the read-only administrator can view Run As accounts that administrators or delegated administrators have specified for that read-only administrator user role.
To create a read-only administrator, see How to Create a Read-Only Administrator User Role in VMM.
Tenant Administrator
As of VMM in System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1), you can create Tenant Administrator user roles.
Members of the Tenant Administrator user role can manage self-service users and VM networks. Tenant administrators can create, deploy, and manage their own virtual machines and services by using the VMM console or a web portal. Tenant administrators can also specify which tasks the self-service users can perform on their virtual machines and services. Tenant administrators can place quotas on computing resources and virtual machines.
To create a tenant administrator, see How to Create a Tenant Administrator User Role in VMM.
Application Administrator (Self-Service User)
Members of the Self-Service User role can create, deploy, and manage their own virtual machines and services by using the VMM console or a Web portal.
To create a self-service user, see How to Create a Self-Service User Role in VMM.

25. VMM Demo
Walk through components
Demonstrate certain features

26. Q & A