1. Reduce TCO Using Policy-Based Management and Windows PowerShell
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Reduce TCO Using Policy-Based Management and Windows PowerShell
Robert Hutchison
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Microsoft Corporation
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2. Agenda Introduction Lap around PBM Lap around PowerShell
PowerShell & PBM
SQL Server R2 Control Point
Wrap up

3. Policy Based Management
Availability in SQL 2008+
Enables database administrators to manage SQL Server by intent
DBAs declare the desired state of the SQL Server environment
Automatic or manual checking/enforcement of compliance
Automation of configuration checklists
The desired state and the rules by which it is enforced is known as Policy

4. How does Policy help with TCO?
Contributors to high TCO
Availability issues
Downtime, outage & failure expenses
Performance issues
diminish money making ability
Security issues
breach, reputation, recovery & prevention
Capacity issues
Under/Overutilized resources
PBM can help with this
PBM enforces this (declarative)
PowerShell automates this (scale)

5. Terms and Concepts
Policy
Condition
Target
Facet
Category

6. Policy Example

7. Policy Categories Policy Categories have 2 purposes
Organization
Scope
Policy belongs to one and only one category
Examples
Audit
Configuration
Maintenance
Security
Performance

8. Policy Examples Security Maintenance Performance Extensible
Restrict authentication mode for a SQL Server Instance to Windows Authentication
Checks whether password policy enforcement on SQL Server logins is enabled
Maintenance
Check if database and the backups are on separate backup devices
Check whether the database has suspect database pages
Performance
Check an instance of SQL Server having processors that are assigned with both the affinity mask and the affinity I/O mask options
Extensible

9. Creating & Evaluating Policies
Policies are created and managed using Management Studio
Steps to creating a Policy
Select a Management Facet that contains the properties of interest
Define a Condition that specifies the state of the Facet
Define a Policy that contains the Condition
Specify the Target Set for the Policy
Specify the Evaluation Mode
Evaluating a Policy
This can be done manually or on a schedule

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11. Windows PowerShell
A revolutionary interactive shell and scripting language built on top of .NET
Powerful Windows Administration
Uses real objects in a “pipeline”
Designed for automation of the Windows environment
Standard component of Windows 2008 R2+ and Windows 7+

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Cmdlets
Name is always verb-noun, to enable users to “figure out” functionality from name
150+ default cmdlets ship with PowerShell
You can also write your own
Use Get-Command to list all cmdlets
Common Syntax: verb-noun –parameter1 argument1 –parameter2 argument2 -switchParameter
Can be “piped”
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13. Providers The file system is just another “provider”
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Providers
The file system is just another “provider”
Other providers include:
The Registry
Certificates
Active Directory
SQL Server
You can write your own
Cmdlets provide consistent behavior, regardless of provider
A provider has “drives”
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14. SQL PowerShell Integration
SQL provide PowerShell integration
SQL Provider
Exposes the hierarchy of SQL Server objects
Similar to file system hierarchy
SQL Cmdlets
SQLPS.exe
PowerShell console that loads SQL snapins
Launch from standalone or from Management Studio
Integrated with SQL Agent

15. SQLPS.exe SQLPS.exe is included in SQL 2008+
Starts a PowerShell session with the SQL Server PowerShell provider
PowerShell can be invoked 4 ways on a SQL Server installation
Launching SQLPS.exe directly
Launching from Management Studio
Launching from SQL Server Agent job
Launching PowerShell directly

16. SQL Provider SQL Provider has the following sub-folders
SQLSERVER:\SQL
SQLSERVER:\SQLPolicy (more on this later)
SQLSERVER:\SQLRegistration
SQLSERVER:\DataCollection
SQLSERVER:\Utility
Included via the SqlServerProviderSnapin100 snapin

17. SQL Cmdlets SQL Server 2008+ includes the following cmdlets
Invoke-SqlCmd
Invoke-PolicyEvaluation (more on this later)
Encode-SqlName
Decode-SqlName
Convert-UrnToPath

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19. PowerShell & PBM Capabilities exposed to PowerShell
Creation/Modification
SMO Classes
Navigation
SQLSERVER:\SQLPolicy
Evaluation
Invoke-PolicyEvaluation
Results
EvaluationHistories
EnumPolicyExecutionHistoryDetail
EnumPolicyExecutionHistoryDetailResults

20. SQLSERVER:\SQLPolicy
All PBM objects are available in this folder
Navigate to PBM objects under each instance
Set-Location SQLSERVER:\SQLPolicy\<ComputerName>\<InstanceName>
Available objects
Conditions
ObjectSets
Policies
PolicyCategories
PolicyCategorySubscriptions

21. Invoke-PolicyEvaluation
Cmdlet for invoking a Policy Evaluation 
Can be used to invoke Policies
Stored in SQL Server
Stored in XML files
Can specify evaluation modes
Check
CheckSqlScriptAsProxy
Configure
Targets
TargetServerName
TargetExpression

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23. Facets PBM relies heavily on facets Facets enable the following:
Create a single view of all physical properties for an object
Create specific views of object properties (i.e. security, performance etc.)
Create logical properties derived from physical properties
Facets can be on one or more objects (target types)
Objects (target types) can have one or more facets

24. Facet examples Database Server Maintenance Options Performance
Security
Server
Configuration
Settings
Setup
Surface Area

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26. Evaluation Modes On Demand On Schedule On Change Log Only
On Change Prevent

27. Evaluation modes On Demand On Schedule On Change: Log Only
Evaluate a policy when specified by user
Available through SSMS or Windows PowerShell™
Option to force certain conditions to comply with policy
Supports down-level evaluation (depends on properties exposed)
On Schedule
SQL Server 2008 only
SQL Server Agent job periodically evaluates a policy
Most policies support this mode
On Change: Log Only
Event notification evaluates a policy when a relevant change is made
On Change: Prevent
DDL triggers prevent policy violations

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29. SQL Server R2 – SQL Server Control Point
SQL Server Control Point is a new feature in R2
Provides insight into resource utilization through policy evaluation
Extends Policy-Based Management to the SQL Server Control Point
Set policies to define desired utilization thresholds across target servers or applications

30. SQL Server Control Point

31. Resource Optimization
Dashboard viewpoints provide insight
Resource Utilization
Policy Violations
Identify consolidation opportunities & at risk resources
Policies
Set desired utilization thresholds
Instances and applications

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