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

2. The Rules

3. 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 

4. Let’s get ready to rumble!

6. 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

7. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

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

14. 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

15. 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

17. 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

18. 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

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

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

22. 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)

24. 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

25. 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

27. 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

28. 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%

29. 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)

31. 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

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

33. Service Management
Microsoft OMS
Nothing available today …

35. 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

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

38. 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

39. 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

40. Overall Bout Scoring

41. 95 95 Score Microsoft System Center
Microsoft Operations Management Suite 95 95

42. It’s a Draw!

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