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Cloud Clustering: Leveraging System Center 2012 SP1 for Continual Availability in the Private Cloud
Symon Perriman
Senior Technical Evangelist
Annur Sumar
Regional Team Lead
Concurrency
Cluster MVP
WS-B304
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3. Deliver IT as a Service Service Model Service Delivery & Automation
Deploy
Configure
Virtual
Physical
Public Cloud
Private Cloud
App Controller
Orchestrator
App
Owner
Service Model
Service Delivery & Automation
Self Service
Virtual Machine Manager
DC Admin
Operations Manager
Data Protection Manager
Operate
Monitor
Service Manager
Service Manager
Application Management
Service Delivery & Automation
Infrastructure Management 3

4. Agenda
System Center High-Availability
Infrastructure
IT Services & Automation
Applications
Extending System Center with Windows Azure

5. System Center High-Availability

6. SP1 System Center 2012 is one product with eight components
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System Center 2012 is one product with eight components
System Center Advisor is a free online cloud service
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7. System Center High-Availability
Server
Redundant server deployments
Run server inside a clustered VM
Backup using DPM or Replicate using Hyper-V Replica
Monitor with a SCOM Management Pack
Database
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Clustering
Replication / Mirroring / Backup to a secondary site
Run SQL inside a clustered VM

8. System Center Server HA Solutions
Advisor Cloud Service
Redundant & distributed services on Azure
App Controller, Orchestrator Web Console, Service Manager Service Catalog
Load-balance network traffic
Operations Manager Server
Highly-Available Management Group
Orchestrator Runbook Server
Primary and redundant runbooks server failover
VMM Library Server
Run a file server on a failover cluster
VMM Management Server
Run directly on a failover cluster

9. Infrastructure

10. Managing Clusters Deploy, validate, configure & manage
Scale management for hosts and VMs
Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 & Clusters
Automatic detection of cluster configuration changes
Supports all new types of live migration

11. Bare Metal Cluster Provisioning
Configure
VMM Server
Bare Metal
Server
Boot & Install
Hyper-V Role
Failover Clustering Feature
Hyper-V Cluster
Configure
network
Configure storage
Validate the configuration
Storage
Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)
Network
64 nodes per cluster
8,000 VMs per cluster
1,024 VMs per node 11

12. Multiple Hypervisor Support
Virtual Machine Manager
Host Group
vCenter Server
VMware vSphere 5.1
Microsoft Hyper-V
Citrix XenServer 6.0

13. Load Balancer Support Load Balancing enables redundant servers
Automation
Connect to load balancer through hardware provider
Assign to clouds, host groups, and logical networks
Configure load balancing method and add virtual IP on service deployment
Partners
Windows Server Network Load Balancing, F5 BIG-IP, Brocade ServerIron ADX, Citrix NetScaler, etc.
Service Template Integration
Specifies preconfigured properties for configuring a LB during service deployment
Specifies load balancing methods—round robin, least connections, fastest response, etc.

14. Intelligent Placement
Automates placement logic on hosts Capacity planning improves resource utilization Spreads VMs across nodes ‘Star-Rated’ results for easy decision making Customizable algorithm

15. Automated Update Management
Automated cluster updating
Uses Intelligent Placement & live migration
Windows PowerShell Support
Most hosts can be patched
Hosts, Host Groups, Host Clusters
VMM Server, Library Server, PXE Server, Update Server
Does not patch VMs or VHDs
Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VMST)
Enable Feature
Manage Baselines
Scan Servers
Remediate Servers
Manage Exemptions

16. Dynamic Optimization No SCOM dependency Rebalances VMs across hosts
Live migration
Keeps cluster balanced
Avoids VM downtime
Supports heterogeneous clusters
Managed resources
Considers CPU, memory, disk IO, network IO
Optimize when above resource threshold
Considers entire cluster
Options
Manual or automatic
User controlled frequency
Configurable aggressiveness

17. Performance & Resource Optimization (PRO)

18. Discover Dependencies that cause Downtime

19. Cross-Platform Visibility
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Cross-Platform Visibility
Health Monitoring
Windows
Linux/UNIX Support
Novel SLES, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, IBM AIX 7.1, HP-UX, Solaris, and others through partner management packs
Heterogeneous monitoring
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20. SCOM Extensibility Monitor anything
Microsoft provides knowledge and thresholds for Microsoft products
Create MPs using templates
Partners provide expertise for non- Microsoft applications
Organizations author their own management packs 20

21. Network Monitoring Physical & Virtual networks Discover Visualize
Multi-vendor support and protocol support
SNMP v1 – v3
IPv4 and IPv6
Monitor
Port and Interface
Peripheral Components
CPU
RAM
Visualize
Network Summary View
Network Node View
Network Vicinity View
Report
Memory & processor utilization
Port traffic volume
Port error analysis
Port packet analysis

22. Hyper-V VM Protection DPM protects VMs, hosts and VMM Server
800 VMs of 100 GB each per DPM Server
Hyper-V over SMB support
Protect during all types of live migration
CSV 2.0 protection
Item level recovery (ILR)
Recover to the same host or different locations

23. Continuous Backup and Protection
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
Tape-Based
Backup

24. Handling Element and Data Center Failures
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Site A
Site B
Physical Server 1
Physical Server 3
Synchronous or Asynchronous Replication between Storage Systems Or Backup, Replication, and Restore
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25. Preparing your Infrastructure for Continual Availability
Demo

26. IT Services & Automation

27. Standardized Service Delivery & Automation
STANDARDIZATION
SELF SERVICE
AUTOMATION
Standardize the services providedby IT to consumers.
Define the services to be offered
Define the request offerings that will be contained within a Service Offering
Identify who needs to be involved (approvals, notifications, fulfillment)
Give consumers of IT services the ability to identify, access and request services as needed.
Controlled Empowerment
Request offerings displayed based on user role
Intuitive easy to navigate portal
Automate the service processes and systems necessary to the fulfillment of consumer requests.
Automate routing of requests for approval and notification.
Automate provisioning of the service request

28. Service Requests for Manual Error Reporting
App
Owner DC
Admin
Templates
User Roles
Publish
Virtual
Machine
Manager
Library
Configuration Manager Database (CMDB)
Runbooks
Templates
Services
Virtual Machines
Hosts
Users
Enables standardization and compliance 28

29. Service Monitoring and Recovery
Triage and Remediate
Isolate root cause
Discover application dependencies
Monitor
end user and application components
Discover application dependencies
Discover application dependencies
Monitor
end user and application components
Monitor
end user and application components
Isolate root cause
Isolate root cause
Triage and Remediate 29

30. Integration Packs System System Center 2012 VMware vSphere
Active Directory
VMware vSphere
File Management
Windows Azure
Monitoring
3rd Party Management Systems
Notification
Scheduling
Extensible
Text File Management
Utilities

31. Automating Service Deployment for Continual Availability
Demo

32. Applications

33. Complete Application Monitoring Solution
Server-Side
Client-Side
Synthetic
Monitoring the actual code that is executed and delivered by the application
End-user experiences related to page load times, server and network latency, and client-side scripting exceptions
Pre-recorded testing paths through the application that highlight availability, response times, and unexpected responses
Use the same tools to monitor with visibility across infrastructure and applications
Infrastructure Monitoring

34. Application Monitoring Across Clouds
Hybrid service
Unified application monitoring across private and public (System Center Monitoring Pack for Windows Azure applications)
CONTOSO
Contoso Webstore
Portal Databases
Portal Watchers
Web Roles
Store
Orders
Chicago
Las Vegas
WebRoleInst1
WebRoleInst2
Private
Trigger remediation actions on Windows Azure applications from System Center 34

35. Global Service Monitoring
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Global Service Monitoring
Web Test + Target URL + Schedule
Web Test
Visual Studio 2012
Operations Manager
Global Service Monitor
Results + Intellitrace
Call Web App
Workitem +
Results + Intellitrace !
Production Application
On-Premise
Results
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36. Consistent Application Configuration
Service Template (Multi-Tier .NET App)
Web Tier
App Tier
Data Tier
Scale-out & health policy
Scale-out & health policy
Scale-out & health policy
IIS
App Server
SQL
HW profile
OS profile
App profile
HW profile
OS profile
App profile
HW profile
OS profile
SQL profile
W2K8R2.VHD
OS settings
MSDeploy
package
Configuration
Configuration
App-V
SQL DAC
Configuration
Service Template Library

37. Application Maintenance without Downtime
TEMPLATE DRIVEN
Provide a single source of truth for service deployments
Use Upgrade Domains to limit disruption of service during updates
IN PLACE UPDATES
Change application or template settings without replacing OS image
Change memory, update application package
IMAGE BASED UPDATES
Replace old OS image with new OS image
Reinstall the application and restore the state 37

38. Application Monitoring for Continual Availability
Demo

39. Extending System Center with Windows Azure

40. System Center Integration with Azure
Move
Manage
Monitor
App Controller
App Controller
Orchestrator
DPM
App Controller
Operations Manager
Advisor
On-Premise
Azure IP
Azure MP

41. Continuous Backup and Protection
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
Tape-Based
Backup

42. Continual Data Protection with Windows Azure
Demo

43. System Center Advisor Proactively avoid problems Resolve issues faster
Alerts for unpatched, misconfigured, or unsupported configurations
Regular assessment of server configuration
Remote access to portal
Resolve issues faster
Access current and historical configuration data
Share configuration data with internal or Microsoft support staff
Get instant access to guidance
Reduce downtime
SQL Server and Windows Server knowledge
Compare with best practices
Access centralized configuration data
Sign up free at

44. Conclusion
System Center 2012 can provide continuous availability for the Private Cloud
Each component can be made highly-available as well as supporting HA features
High-availability is available from the infrastructure to the service layer to the application

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Resources
Microsoft Virtual Academy:
Configuring and Deploying Microsoft’s Private Cloud
Introduction to Hyper-V Jump Start
Introduction to the Microsoft Private Cloud
Microsoft Tools for VMware Integration & Migration
Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals
System Center 2012 Deep Dive
System Center 2012 SP1 Enhancements
Windows Server 2012
TechNet:
System Center 2012:
Windows Server 2012:
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