1. Datacenter and Private Cloud
Configure and Deploy Infrastructure Components
Julius Davies \ Clive Watson
Datacenter Technology Specialists
Microsoft Corporation

2. Agenda Introduction – Delivering IT As A Service
Configure and Deploy Private Cloud Infrastructure
Compute, Storage, Network, Cluster
Abstraction, Heterogeneity, Access, Control
Monitor and Operate Private Cloud Infrastructure
Proactive, Corrective, Standardize, Available
Optimize, Control, Standardize, Right-Size
Next Steps
Q&A

3. System Center Helps Deliver IT as a Service
Deploy
Configure
Virtual
Physical
Public Cloud
Private Cloud
App Controller
Orchestrator
Service Model
Service Delivery and Automation
Self Service
App
Owner
Virtual Machine Manager
DC Admin
Operations Manager
Configuration Manager
Data Protection Manager
Goal of the slide
Frame how System Center 2012 enables delivering IT as a Service between the App Owner and DC Admin personas that we defined.
Talking Points
<click> Let’s trace back to the two personas we discussed earlier. What we’re going to first discuss are the capabilities required to deliver a private cloud as well as leverage hybrid computing models.
<click> Firstly, you need a “simple” self-service experience to enable your application owners specify their service requirements. Let’s say the “consumer” trying to provision a SharePoint service with the following spec:
3 tier .NET architecture
Has a set of configuration and deployment parameters to conform with (e.g. perf thresholds, scale out rules, update domains)
Needs 99.95% availability SLA
Adheres to compliance/security controls around SOX/HIPAA
Need on-demand reporting on key availability metrics that track against SLA
<click> Next, you need a way to understand the topology and architecture of the application service in question. An application deployed in cloud computing model is called a “service”. This would necessitate a “service model” that accurately binds the application’s architecture to the underlying resources where it will be hosted. The “service model” would be comprised of:
Service definition information, deployed as “roles”. Roles are like DLLs, i.e. a collection of code with an entry point that runs in its own virtual machine
Front end: e.g. load-balanced stateless web servers
Middle worker tier: e.g. order processing, encoding
Backend storage: e.g. SQL tables or files
Service Configuration information
Update domains
Availability domains
Scale out rules
<click> You will need a set of process automation capabilities to break down this application provisioning request into the enterprise change requests that need to be implemented. This could include setting up the underlying infra and then a set of app configuration/release requests that need to be tracked (and ideally implemented with orchestrated automation)
<click> Next you need a set of provisioning tools that actually configure and deploy the infra and application layers.
<click> the underlying datacenter resources could be physical, virtual, private or public as per the requirements dictated by the application’s service model
<click> once the application service is deployed, it would immediately need to be “discovered” and monitored for reporting and health tracking
<click> There you see how the System Center 2012 components offer these life cycle management capabilities in combination to help you deliver hybrid IT as a Service as per your organization’s requirements:
App Controller would offer that self-service experience that allows your application owners manage their apps across private and public environments.
Service Manager offers the standardized self-service catalog that defines “templates” for your applications and infrastructure.
App Controller, Virtual Machine Manager, Service Manager and Operations Manager work together to maintain the service model through the application service life cycle
Orchestrator and Service Manager offer orchestrated automation for the process workflows required to drive your provisioning and monitoring tools
Virtual Machine Manager and Configuration manager can provision physical, virtual and cloud environments
Operations Manager (AVIcode capabilities will be built into Operations Manager) monitors your application services end to end and offers deep app insight to help you deliver predictable SLA
Your datacenter resources could be deployed anywhere from physical boxes to virtual to private to public with Windows Server/ Hyper-V and Windows Azure
However, to get to this agile self-service end-state, you will have to start with abstracting your infrastructure and allocating it appropriately so that your business units can deploy and manage their applications on top. We will see how in the subsequent sections of this presentation.
<click> So, how does System Center 2012 get you to this point where you can deliver IT as a Service?
Talking points:
If we think holistically about what’s involved in delivering IT as a service, they can really be categorized into three buckets:
Application Management: Deploying and operating your business applications
Service Delivery & Automation: Standardizing and automating service and resource provisioning, managing change and access controls, etc.
Infrastructure management: Deploying and operating all the underlying infrastructure on which your business applications and services run.
Operate
Monitor
Service Manager
Service Manager
Application Management
Service Delivery and Automation
Infrastructure Management 3

4. Constructing the Private Cloud
Standardized services
Delegated capacity
Development
Production
Cloud abstraction
Assign dedicated and shared resources
Logical and standardized
Diverse infrastructure
Datacenter One
Datacenter Two
Production
Development

5. Configure and Deploy

6. Get Your Infrastructure Components Ready
COMPUTE
STORAGE
NETWORK
CLUSTER
Deploy your compute resources, taking them from bare metal to fully deployed for your physical and virtualization hosts.
Discover, classify, and allocate storage for use by the private cloud. Provide the correct storage for use with appropriate access.
Abstract your complex networking infrastructure into logical networks for cloud use. Assign IP, virtual IP, and MAC addresses from pools and integrate with load balancers.
Consolidate your infrastructure components for use in a private cloud.
As you are preparing for the Private Cloud, you have to think about how do I build the Private Cloud from the different Fabric resources that I have in my Infrastructure. I have Compute needs where I need to deploy the underlying Compute resources like bare metal OS deployments, as well as my Hyper-V Servers. I have different types of Storage within my Fabric, and I will need to be able to properly Discover, Classify, and Allocate this resource to my different Virtualized environments. I have complex Networking requirements in my datacenter which I will need to simplify for use in my Private Cloud.
With all of these different Fabric Elements, I will need to be able to pull them together and create Clusters for use as the underlying infrastructure for my Private Cloud. 6

7. Build Your Private Cloud, Your Way
ABSTRACTION
HETEROGENEITY
ACCESS
CONTROL
Take the underlying infrastructure of networking, storage, and compute, and abstract those resources into clouds.
Create cloud abstractions across virtualized infrastructure from Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix.
Manage resource utilization and service creation by delegating self-service access to cloud resources.
Standardize application deployment by using templates.
With all of my heterogeneous infrastructure available to me, I need to be able to put it all together and create a Private Cloud. Through abstraction of my resources, I can manage my complex underlying heterogeneous resources while giving a consistent view of a cloud to my Self Service Users.
This requires that I have the ability to set up Access Controls on who can access which resources as well as control over the virtualization templates that my Self-Service Users will have access to. 7

8. Automated Bare-Metal Hyper-V Deploy in Action
Download WINPE
Boot from PXE
WDS server 4 2
Run generic command execution scripts and configure partitions
Hyper-V server
Host Group
Customize and domain join
Authorize
PXE boot 3
contoso 8
OOB reboot 5
Hyper-V server
Host Group
Host Group
VMM server 1
Enable Hyper-V
Hyper-V server
Hyper-V server
VHD 9
Download VHD
Inject drivers
Bare-metal
server
Library server
Drivers 6 7
Host profile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

9. Bare Metal Server Build
DEMO
Bare Metal Server Build

10. Utilize Storage More Effectively
END-TO-END MAPPING
CAPACITY MANAGEMENT
RAPID PROVISIONING
Create associations between storage and VM through reconciling data from Hyper-V and storage arrays
Identify storage consumed by VM, host, and cluster
Add storage to a host or cluster through masking operations, initialization, partitioning, formatting, and CSV cluster resource creation
Add storage capacity during new cluster creation
Create new VMs leveraging the SAN to copy the VHD
Utilize SMI-S copy services and replication profiles
Deploy to host or cluster at scale
Rapid provisioning only limited by the capabilities of the array.
Line of sight into virtualization fabric
Help the frustrated administrator who has no visibility into storage fabric
Simplify the end-to-end mapping of virtualization to storage assets
Cost reduction through ease of use
Simplify consumption of storage capacity
Enable IT to provision storage on-demand
Reduction in complexity through automation
Create value-add on top of VMM storage model and cmdlets
Reduction in deployment friction
Remove the middle-man when requesting storage
Minimize human error
Deploy VMs faster with no load on the network, leveraging SAN capabilities 10

11. Storage Allocation Process
Discover storage through SMI-S provider
Virtual Machine Manager
Create storage-classification pools and associate with storage
Host Group
SMI-S provider
Allocate storage to specific host groups
Assign existing LUNs to hosts and clusters
Discover:
SMI-S support for array based discovery
External storage array, pools, logical units (LUN), storage groups, endpoints, and initiators
Local Host side
disks, volumes, initiators (FC, iSCSI), ports
Classify:
Generate user defined capability of a storage
Create tiers of storage definitions
Associate a storage pool to the classification
Allocate:
Control what storage consumed by hosts and clusters
Associate storage pools and logical units with a host group before assigning to cluster
Create new logical units from storage pool
Assign:
Expose new logical units to a host or cluster
Unmasking operations, initialization of disk, creation of volume
Creates CSV automatically in the cluster case
Create:
LUN From available capacity
Writeable snapshot of logical unit
Full clone of logical unit
Associate a storage pool and/or logical unit to host group for consumption by hosts/clusters contained in host group
You can provision LUNs, Snapshot LUNs, or Copy LUNs depending on need and capabilities of SAN
You can assign to Hosts as LUNs, Passthrough disks, and Cluster Shared Volumes
Expose iSCSI storage to host/cluster using VMM
Creation of persistent sessions
Present iSCSI array to existing host/cluster
Present host/cluster to existing iSCSI array
Support for MultiPortPerView, AllPortsPerView, OnePortPerView
Simplify multi-path claiming of storage devices
Using default MSDSM
Automatic creation of storage groups
Standalone host - per host
Cluster – per node or per cluster
Create new LUNs from pool and assign to hosts and clusters
Tier 1
Tier 2 11

12. Storage Integration with SMI-S
DEMO
Storage Integration with SMI-S

13. Network Management Networking and Load Balancer Integration
LOGICAL NETWORKS
ADDRESS POOLS
LOAD BALANCERS
Classify network for VMs to access
Map to network topology
Allocate to hosts and clouds
Allocate a static IP address to VMs from a preconfigured pool
Create an IP pool as a managed range of IP address assignments
Create a MAC address pool as a managed range of MAC address assignments
Apply settings for load balancer capability in service deployment
Control load balancer through vendor provider based on PowerShell
Create virtual IP templates consisting of load balancer configuration settings
Networking and Load Balancer Integration
Logical network – Classification of network VM connects to
Based on purpose or network access level
Logical network definition – Map logical network to network topology
Based on connectivity of hypervisor host in relation to physical topology
IP Pool - Range of IPs managed by VMM
Used for static IP assignment to guest OS or as VIP on load balancer
MAC Pool - Range of MACs managed by VMM
Used for static MAC assignment to VM virtual network adapter
Load Balancer Automation – Provisioning of VIP
Dedicated IP (DIP) is statically assigned to VM from IP pool
Virtual IP is assigned from IP pool
Load Balancer Provider – Integration with HW/SW load balancers
Providers based on PowerShell and implemented by vendor
VIP Template – Property bag with most common used setting on LB
Used to streamline the creation of a VM that needs connectivity to LB. 13

14. Logical Networks in the Private Cloud
Standardized services
Delegated capacity
Development
Production
Simple Networking
Complex Networking
Cloud abstraction
Create logical networks and assign them to the appropriate
networking on the hosts
Deployed services use correct logical networks
Logical and standardized
DMZ
Prod
DMZ
Prod
DMZ
Prod
Diverse infrastructure
Datacenter One
Datacenter Two
Production
Development

15. DEMO
Logical Networks

16. Host Clusters Bring the Fabric Together
CREATION
MANAGEMENT
DELETION
Use wizard-based experience
Support cluster validation
Allocate cluster disks from managed storage
Create cluster-wide virtual network
Add and remove nodes, cluster disks, and virtual networks
Drag and drop host to add node to cluster
Monitor cluster health and status
Clustered hosts will become managed standalone hosts
Clustered disks will be returned to managed storage
Creation
Wizard based experience
Cluster validation will be run for you
Ability to skip validation and start on-demand validation
Allocate cluster disks if VMM is managing storage
Create cluster-wide virtual network
For WS08 R2 Hyper-V hosts in trusted domain only
Management
Add/Remove - Nodes, Cluster disks and Virtual networks
Drag/drop host to add node to cluster
Cluster status tab
Shortcut to cluster validation test results from cluster status tab
Deletion
Un-clustered hosts remain managed as standalone hosts
Cluster disk will be unmasked if VMM is managing storage 16

17. Take Advantage Of Your Existing Investments
CONSISTENCY
CHOICE
SIMPLICITY
Offer same capabilities with different hypervisors
Use the same network abstractions
Deploy VMs and applications in a consistent manner
Microsoft Hyper-V
VMware vSphere 4.1
Citrix XenServer 6.0
Abstract the hypervisor layer to decrease complexity
Simplify migration between virtualization solutions
For VMware vSphere, consistency means:
Support both standard and distributed virtual switches and port groups
Attach logical networks to associated vSwitch
Support for vMotion and storage vMotion
Support for existing fault tolerant VMs
For Citrix XenServer, consistency means:
Simplify virtual switch management by wrapping a single virtual switch around all of the XenServer switches on a single physical adapter
Support for paravirtualized and hardware-assisted virtual machines
Support for new checkpoint enhancements in XenServer
Examples of Simplicity:
For VMware
Import vCenter template metadata into VMM library
Don’t copy entire VMDK
Deploy VM through vCenter for faster deployment than with the previous way System Center Virtual Machine Manager deployed VMs through network copy.
For XenServer
Create templates in VMM, deploy to XenServer
XenServer templates are not used by VMM
Use the same methods to manage virtualization and deploy services to different hypervisors

18. Support for Multiple Hypervisors
Virtual Machine Manager
Host Group
vCenter Server
VMware vSphere 4.1
Microsoft Hyper-V
Citrix XenServer 6.0
VMware ESX managed through VMware vCenter Server Support for vSphere 4.1 and earlier
Citrix XenServer 6.0 host managed directly. Citrix provide plug –in that installs on XenServer to provide ability for VMM to manage it directly.
No dependency on XenCenter
Both Hypervisors - Add host and clusters into any host group

19. Configure and Deploy Infrastructure Components Summary:
Physical and virtual compute infrastructure deployment
Storage infrastructure management
Logical network infrastructure abstraction
Cluster creation brings the infrastructure together
DC Admin

20. Create the Private Cloud
Development
Production
Cloud Abstraction
Logical and Standardized
Datacenter One
Datacenter Two
Production
Development

21. Logically Group Your Resources into Clouds
Create clouds for specific needs
View deployed services and VMs
Set Capacity and Capability per Cloud 21

22. DEMO
Create a Cloud with VMM2012

23. Delegating Access to Private Cloud Capacity
Delegated Capacity
Development
Production
Cloud Abstraction
Datacenter One
Datacenter Two
Production
Development

24. Assign Actions to User Roles
Create custom roles
Choose actions and change actions dynamically as needed
Uses Active Directory users and groups 24

25. Assign Quota Capacity
Ability to set quota at the “all members combined” level
Ability to set quota at the “individual member” level
Example of Team vs. User :
50 VM’s can be created for the team with a max of 10 for each user
VMs in Library are not counted against Quota Dimension
50 VM limit for all members of
user role
10 VM limit per individual member 25

26. Delegate Clouds to Users
DEMO
Delegate Clouds to Users

27. Standardize Application Deployment with Service Templates
Scale out and health policy
Service template (multi-tier .NET applications)
Internet Information Services (IIS)
HW profile
OS profile
App profile
Application server
SQL Server
Web tier
Application tier
Data tier
Web (IIS)
App (App-V)
Data (SQL)
Goal of the slide
Represent how System Center 2012 simplifies application provisioning for private clouds by enabling a standardized approach.
Talking points
<Click> Through service templates, System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager offers you the ability to define standardized application blueprints, which can be used to automatically deploy application services to shared resource pools, thus simplifying application provisioning. Defining your application requirements with a repeatable construct like service templates makes provisioning faster and less error-prone than when you manually have to deploy the application.
Service templates provide the blueprint for the application service, including specifications for the hardware, operating system, and application packages. System Center 2012 supports multiple package types for .NET applications, including MS Deploy for the web tier (IIS), SAV for the application tier, and SQL DAC for the data tier.
Operationalizing service templates across your service-consumer and service-provider organizations will likely require active collaboration between the App Devs, App Ops, and DC Admin roles to discuss and standardize the initial set of hardware, OS, and app profiles that new applications could adhere to. It might be beneficial to take an incremental approach to testing this capability before rolling out across a broader set of applications. This process will likely require broad sponsorship across the LOB application IT and infrastructure IT organizations.
<Click>
Once organizationally approved application blueprints are established and stored in the Virtual Machine Manager service template library, your application owners are ready to deploy applications on their own. They can go to the application owner self-service experience in System Center App Controller, where they can access and select service templates that they’ve been authorized for. They can easily specify configuration requirements like application topology, scale-out rules, health thresholds, and upgrade rules into the service template and then kick-start a “one-click deployment.” Before the application owner hits deploy, App Controller provides a compelling visualization of the of the holistic application service, including all the requested service tiers, the underlying virtual instance templates, and storage, compute, and network resources. This enables application owners to “think services, not servers” by offering a “service-centric” approach to provisioning.
Virtual Machine Manager uses the service template specifications to build out the application tiers, including the various logical instances associated with each tier. In the real world, you are likely to encounter scaled-out (or multi-instance) web front ends and application tiers, but scaled-up (or single instance–based) database tiers.
Virtual Machine Manager uses the service template specifications to help ensure that the application is deployed to the appropriate virtualized resource pools.
Compute
Storage
Network

28. Configure and Deploy Private Cloud Infrastructure Summary:
Designed to handle your heterogeneous virtualization
Abstracted resources to create your private cloud
Delegated access to your private cloud infrastructure
Controlled deployments through service templates
DC Admin

29. Monitor and Operate
I need to know how my infrastructure components are performing to meet my OLAs
Ensure infrastructure OLA through resource monitoring
Monitor my infrastructure to determine if I meet my OLAs
Less downtime, quicker time to fix
System Center 2012 Operations Manager

30. Understand your Infrastructure
PROACTIVE
CORRECTIVE
STANDARDIZED
AVAILABLE
Monitor OS, compute, storage, and network infrastructure components to help ensure infrastructure SLAs.
Quickly view infrastructure component health, diagnose alerts, and resolve problems using built-in knowledge.
Automate cloud infrastructure component updates and patching without service interruption.
Help ensure service availability and recover from infrastructure outages.
With all of these infrastructure components, how do I ensure that I am proactive in understanding utilization and performance, I can quickly be alerted if a problem occurs having both built in knowledge of how to fix it as well as “tribal” knowledge. Also, with my infrastructure for the Private Cloud, I need to ensure that I can update the infrastructure components without affecting my service levels.
With the datacenter infrastructure running efficiently, you also need to be able to recover in case of both element outage and whole site recovery. 30

31. Optimizing Cloud Utilization
OPTIMIZED
CONTROLLED
STANDARDIZED
RIGHT-SIZED
Help ensure that the services running in your private cloud get the resources they need, and that your cloud dynamically reallocates resources as demand changes.
Help protect your private cloud infrastructure by setting limits on your clouds while ensuring the correct application owners have access to their cloud resources.
Standardize your approach to application and OS updating. Use a controlled process to update services through service templates.
Report on the current utilization of your private cloud, trend usage over time, and forecast future needs.
Cloud Model
Compute, Storage, Network Fabric
Cloud
Apps
You don’t have 1 cloud, you have multiple clouds and they sit on your infrastructure and share your infrastructure
Concepts are actually in the product (land that we have this and think about it in the product).
When you think about managing a private cloud, you want to ensure that you provide the resources in a way that effectively delivers the cloud resources without compromising the integrity of your infrastructure. You private cloud is:
Optimized – Dynamically adjusting the resources to accommodate load
I need to ensure that my applications get the resources they need when they need them, and I can handle these changes dynamically.
Controlled – Assuring the correct people are accessing the correct resources
I need a way to control the amount of resources I assign to my application owners. I want them to have self service, but I want to place limits on what they are using.
Systematic – Updating the applications or services with approved updates
I need a more systematic approach to application updates. I would like to update once and push those updates to all deployed services.
Right-Sized – Understanding the resources utilization of your cloud now and forecasting for future growth
I need to know before I outgrow capacity, and be able to plan for future growth? 31

32. Fabric Monitoring Helps achieve infrastructure SLAs
Trends infrastructure usage over time
Allows for broad service coverage with partner management packs 32

33. Update Management More compliant and up-to-date
VMM server
Update server
Update catalog
More compliant and up-to-date
Works with existing update server
No down time with live migration
Updates
Virtual hosts
Transition:
Another way that System Center 2012 enables you to meeting your fabric SLA is by ensuring your virtual resources are up to date.
Traditional update engines like System Center Configuration Manager aren’t cluster-aware. They’re likely to push out patches to all hosts simultaneously, disrupting cluster availability.
VMM 2012 can integrate with a dedicated 64-bit Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 SP2 server and will orchestrate cluster patching by migrating VMs to other hosts in the cluster, patching the node and rebooting if required. It will repeat the process on the next host until the whole cluster is up-to-date.
You can define update baselines with lists of required updates. VMM will then scan hosts to determine compliance, and finally apply patches to bring them current. You will have the option to exempt particular hosts if a patch turns out to cause instability.
Talking Points:
The feature requires a pre-existing, dedicated, root WSUS 3.0 SP2 64 bit server. If the WSUS server is remote, the WSUS console is required on the VMM server. It supports WSUS in SSL mode.
A scan is then conducted to see if the server is compliant or not for the assigned baseline. VMM leverages WUA for applicability and compliance. Scan is on demand and automatable using PowerShell. VMM then makes the server compliant by installing missing updates. Update installation progress can be tracked in the VMM console and remediation is on demand and automatable using PowerShell.
Virtual Machine Manager provides a feature by which you can manage updates for your virtual machine hosts, library servers, PXE servers, the Windows Server Update Management (WSUS) server, and the VMM server itself in the VMM console.
Enable feature
In VMM, use Add WSUS server wizard to select and add WSUS server and then synchronize with the latest updates. VMM gets a catalog of updates from the update server. It points the fabric servers to the correct update server, i.e. configures the WUA agent on each fabric server.
Create Baseline
After you enable update management in VMM, you are ready to prepare for patching by configuring update baselines. An update baseline contains a set of required updates. The baseline is a logical grouping of updates to assess compliance. VMM provides two sample baselines for Security and Critical updates. You can assign the baseline to hosts, host groups and host clusters, plus VMM server roles (library server, PXE server, Update server and VMM server). You cannot assign it to VMs (running or stored) or VHDs in the library.
Scan Servers
During a compliance scan, computers that are assigned to a baseline are graded for compliance to their assigned baselines. After a computer is found noncompliant, an administrator brings the computer into compliance through update remediation.
<click> Remediate servers
If computers are found to be non-compliant, remediation can be performed. When you perform update remediation on a host cluster, VMM orchestrates the updates, in turn placing each cluster node in maintenance mode, migrating virtual machines off the host by using intelligent placement, and then installing the updates. If the cluster supports live migration of Windows Server-based virtual machines, live migration is used. If the cluster does not support live migration, VMM saves state for the virtual machines and does not migrate them.
Outline for talking points
Managing Baselines
Create baseline
Logical grouping updates to assess compliance
Two sample baselines for Security and Critical updates
Assign baseline
Choosing the servers to assess compliance
Can assign to
Hosts, Host Groups and Host Clusters
VMM Server Roles – Library Server, PXE Server, Update Server, VMM Server
Can NOT assign to
VMs (running or stored), VHDs in library
Scan
Check if the server is compliant or not for assigned baseline
VMM leverages WUA for applicability and compliance
Scan is on demand and automatable using PowerShell
Remediate
Make the server compliant by installing missing updates
Update installation progress can be tracked in VMM console
Remediate is on demand and automatable using PowerShell
Notes:
- Requires WSUS 3.0 SP2 64 Bit server
- Requires WSUS console on VMM server if WSUS server is remote
- Supports WSUS in SSL mode
- Share a WSUS root server between SCCM and SCVMM -NEW
- Utilize an autonomous SCCM WSUS DSS server at the integration point -NEW
- Enable centralized reporting via SCCM reporting -NEW
Enable feature
Manage baselines
Scan servers
Remediate servers
Manage exemptions

34. DEMO
Update Management

35. Continuous Backup and Protection for Microsoft Workloads
Online snapshots
Disk-based
recovery
Active Directory
Data Protection Manager
Up to
every 15 minutes
Disaster recovery
with offsite replication and tape
Data Protection Manager
On this slide we talk about how the same product can be used to back-up and recover a wide range of Microsoft products. We have a few data points that we can leverage here as to how we have optimized our back-up and recovery solution:
In SQL:
We support any point in time recovery, we provide self service restores
Upto 2000 SQL Databases can be protected using a single DPM server
The change tracking is super storage efficient.
For Exchange:
We provide protection against total loss due to logical corruptions
We can preserve data for point in time restores
For Sharepoint
You can protect at a farm level, but can do granular level recovery. Recovery of a document takes only a few seconds now.
New databases are automatically detected and protected
For HyperV
You can do item level recovery of VMs
You can back-up the entire host
You can seamlessly protect live migration of VMs
We can back-up data from all these sources once every 15 minutes to a Tape or a Disk and you can save this back-up in an offsite location again on a tape or a disk or in the cloud.
Tape-based
backup

36. Automate Recovery IR2667 SQL Server 1 SQL Server 2 Service Manager
Orchestrator
Virtual Machine Manager
Operations Manager
Goal: Show customers the power of automation capabilities in SC 2012.
Talking points
In addition to providing deep monitoring and diagnostic insight for your IT infrastructure, SC 2012 provides integration and automation capabilities which can be configured to support many different incident or error remediation scenarios. Orchestrator is the component providing automated runbook capabilities combined with connectivity to other management components (System Center and third party) with the use of Integration Packs. In this example we’re going to automatically migrate a SQL server database. After investigating the alert in Operations Manager we just saw, we’ve decided we should migrate the database on that VM to another SQL Server instance.
As you can see in this screen, Orchestrator's runbook designer can be used to create automated workflows that perform several tasks while integrating with all the necessary management components. The icons and the interface are very user friendly so it’s easy to see what activities will happen and in what order.
Detailed flow for this automation example
<click> The SQL migration runbook can either be started from within the Orchestrator console, or triggered by Orchestrator pulling the alert information from Operations Manager.
<click> Once the process is kicked off, Orchestrator communicates with VMM, and then VMM checks for valid names of the source and destination servers, plus the database to be migrated.
<click> Next, Orchestrator communicates with Service Manager to create an incident ID associated with the database migration ensuring there’s a record of this process.
<click> At this point, Data Protection Manager is pulled into process to create a recovery point for the database and exports it to a designated network share.
<click> Now that the database is backed up, Orchestrator is going to kick-off a PowerShell script to run the actual database migration to the new SQL server VM.
<click> Once the migration is complete, Operations Manager will be put into maintenance mode for the source server we migrated the database from so that when VMM shuts it down, an error will not be thrown.
<click> And, finally, once the source VM is shut down the associated incident logged in SM will resolve.
This is just one example of the powerful integrated automation capabilities being delivered with SC 2012.
So, what else can be automated? Things like:
Incident Response
Provisioning
Disaster Recovery
Compliance Requirements
Change Control
Capacity Management
SQL Server 1
SQL Server 2
Data Protection Manager

37. Monitor and Operate Infrastructure Components Summary:
Proactively monitor your physical infrastructure performance
View the health of your services and use “Knowledge” to correct physical infrastructure issues
Standardize your approach to physical infrastructure updates
Ensure availability of physical infrastructure resources and recover resources
DC Admin

38. Dynamic Optimization in Action
Optimization Threshold
Virtual Machine Manager
Resource Utilization
Time of Day
How do we handle dynamically changing workloads?
As System Center notices that the workloads upon a particular hypervisor pass a threshold, they will automatically adjust the VM distribution to better handle the current load, and as we all know, this load will change depending on many factors (time of day/month, popularity of the application, seasonality, etc.) and you need to adjust the workloads throughout the day, and you don’t want to have to sit there and watch it all the time.

39. Dynamic Optimization Fundamentals
LIVE MIGRATION
MANAGED RESOURCES
OPTIONS
Keeps cluster balanced
Avoids VM downtime
Supports heterogeneous clusters
Microsoft Hyper-V
VMware vSphere
Citrix XenServer
Considers CPU, memory, disk I/O, network I/O
Optimizes when resource moves above resource threshold
Considers entire cluster
Manual or automatic optimization
User-controlled frequency
Configurable aggressiveness
Resources
Optimizes for CPU, Memory, Disk IO and Network IO
Optimizes when resource usage goes above DO threshold
Considers overall cluster status
Manual and Automatic mode
Default is manual
User defined frequency
Default is 10 minutes
Configurable aggressiveness
More aggressive = More migrations = More balanced
Dynamic optimization handles your ever-changing workloads 42

40. Capacity Reporting and Management
I need to know the utilization of my private cloud infrastructure, now.
I need to trend my private cloud infrastructure usage over time.
I need to forecast future private cloud infrastructure resource needs.

41. Analysis and What-If Forecasting
Monitor the usage of the private cloud, and trend the data over time
Analyze the historical data to create “what-if” scenarios for future planning
VMM 2012 Reports for Forecasting

42. Monitor and Operate Private Cloud Infrastructure Summary:
Optimized to handle dynamic workloads
Controlled access to private cloud resources
Systematic approach to delivering and managing fabric and services
Right-sized now and in the future
DC Admin

43. Constructing the Private Cloud
Standardized services
Delegated capacity
Development
Production
Cloud abstraction
Assign dedicated and shared resources
Logical and standardized
Diverse infrastructure
Datacenter One
Datacenter Two
Production
Development

44. Next Steps – Deliver your private cloud using System Center 2012 today!
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