Post on 01-Sep-2018
System Center 2012 R2 Overview Shane Snipes
Microsoft Technology Specialist
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Agenda
System Center: Unified management for
the Cloud OS
System Center momentum
Customer needs and opportunities
System Center 2012 R2 solution and
capability overview
Why choose System Center 2012 R2
Next steps
Appendix
System Center: Unified management for the Cloud OS
Transforming IT to address new questions
Customer
Service Provider
Microsoft
Consistent Platform
ONE
With Microsoft’s Cloud OS vision, customers can…
Windows Server
Windows Azure
Microsoft cloud experience
Windows Server
Windows Azure
Bringing our learning to your datacenter
Windows Server
Windows Azure
and many others….
Customer challenges and opportunities
Enterprise-
class
Simple and
cost-effective
Application
focused
Requirement to provide scalable and reliable services.
Always-on expectations of the business.
IT budget pressure
even with increasing
expectations.
Complex IT
environments that are
tough to manage.
Volume of Web and
cloud applications
continues to rise.
Evolution of
applications to hybrid
cloud deployment
models.
Customer challenges and opportunities
System Center Unified management for the Cloud OS
App Controller
Service Manager
Service model
Orchestrator
Service
Manager
Service admin
Customers
Microsoft
Customer
Service
Provider
System Center 2012 R2 capability overview
Infrastructure provisioning
Enterprise-class multi-tenant infrastructure for hybrid environments
System Center capabilities
Application performance monitoring
Deep insight into application health
Automation and self-service
Application-owner agility while IT retains control
IT service management
Flexible service delivery
Infrastructure monitoring
Comprehensive monitoring of physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure
System Center 2012 R2 solution overview
Utilize a single tool for on-premises and cloud provisioning
Infrastructure provisioning
Effectively manage virtual environments at-scale
Reduce infrastructure complexity
Deliver efficient infrastructure services across customer base
IT demands
System Center 2012 R2 delivers Enterprise-class virtualization management with robust Linux support
Simplified provisioning & migration
Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure
Extend familiar management to Windows Azure
Enterprise-class multi-tenant infrastructure for hybrid environments
System Center supports enterprise-class scale and performance
Complete virtualization-management
• VMM support for automated Hyper-V cluster upgrades without downtime.
• Snapshot running VM without downtime.
Flexible storage provisioning & management
• Windows Server file-based storage and Storage Spaces, including bare metal file server cluster provisioning.
• VM connectivity into fibre-channel SAN storage.
Robust Linux in-guest support
• Greater VM density per host with Dynamic Memory support.
• File-level VM backups, restore full VMs.
Generation 2 VM support
Enterprise-class management, open source support
Innovation: Support for Gen-2 virtual machines in Hyper-V
Ease of Management & Operations
• PXE boot from Optimized vNIC.
• Hot-Add CD/DVD Drive.
Dynamic Storage
• VMs have UEFI firmware with support for GPT partitioned OS boot disks >2TB.
• Faster Boot from Virtual SCSI with Online. Resize & increased performance.
Security
• Removal of emulated devices reduces attack surface.
• VM UEFI firmware supports Secure Boot.
VMs built on optimized,
software-based devices
Simplified infrastructure service delivery
• In-box service templates and runbooks for System Center components.
• Integration of existing investments using web-based interfaces to System Center capabilities.
• Management scaled across multiple System Center instances or “stamps”.
• Extensible service management automation.
• Tenant-level resource metering for capacity planning and usage analytics.
Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure
Tenant admin/users
APIs
CMDB
Ticketing
Billing
Management
Systems
VIRTUAL MACHINE CLOUDS 12
SQL SERVER 9
PLANS 12
WEBSITE CLOUD 12
MYSQL SERVERS 0
NOTIFICATIONS 0
USER ACCOUNTS 4 AUTOMATION 8
ALL ITEMS
Integration Workflow
automation
Web-based
authoring
Enable efficient infrastructure delivery and operations
• Web-based runbook authoring.
• Scalable, multi-tenant-aware automation engine built on Windows PowerShell.
• Import existing Windows PowerShell scripts and workflows.
• Integration with existing or third-party systems.
Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure: service management automation
• Granular metering of resource usage by tenant, including CPU, memory, and storage.
• Enable business and operational insight with tenant-level analytics.
• Data warehousing and reporting, including allocation, utilization, and license compliance views.
• Integration with Cloud Cruiser cost analytics solution for chargeback.
Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure: capacity planning and usage analytics
Open, extensible, and standards-based solution delivers flexibility, automation, and control
• At-scale management of virtual networks on shared physical networks.
• Multi-tenant edge gateway for seamless, highly-available physical and virtual network connectivity.
• Easy remote access into virtualized service provider network for tenants.
• OMI-based plug-in for automated TOR switch configuration.
• Partner ecosystem support.
Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure: virtual networks
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VM management
(e.g. start, stop) Migrate VM: On-premises to
Windows Azure
Migrate VM: Windows
Azure to on-premises
Extend familiar System Center to manage Windows Azure virtual machines
IT demands
System Center 2012 R2 delivers
Monitor diverse environments
Assure physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure health
Ensure reliable workload configurations
Infrastructure monitoring
Best-of-breed Windows monitoring, robust cross-platform support
Network monitoring and cloud infrastructure health
Best-practice workload configuration
Comprehensive monitoring of physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure
Windows Server 2012 VMware vSphere
Deep infrastructure and workload insight
Automation and self-service
IT demands
System Center 2012 R2 delivers
Empower app owners while retaining control
Common management tools for on-premises and cloud
Dynamically expand capacity to support app SLA
Self-service app provisioning, incl. multitenant environments
Unified management views & artifacts b/w Windows Server & Azure
Scale application tiers via automation & integration
Application agility while IT retains control
Simplified application provisioning
Simplified application provisioning
Drive agility with SharePoint service templates
Daniele Grandini, Executive, Progel IT
“Each workload in our R&D environment will have its own template, so when we need to deploy, for example, a SharePoint test environ-ment, the virtual machine will be ready to go with all the tiers and resources needed.”
Scalable multi-VM tenant services for Windows Server with Windows Azure-consistent user experience
Unified management view across clouds
Flexible delegation with single sign-on
Self-service visibility for application services
across on-premises, service provider, and
Windows Azure
Easy VM and workload portability from
on-premises to Windows Azure
(including SharePoint and SQL)
Application performance monitoring
IT demands
System Center 2012 R2 delivers
Assure Line of Business (LOB) application SLA
Enable rapid application lifecycle
Assure great end-user experiences and Microsoft workload health
Deep application insight
Integrated dev-ops that spans people, process and systems
Cloud-integrated insight in familiar monitoring console
Deep insight into application health
The DevOps disconnect
Deep application insight for .NET applications
Java Tomcat app server support (v5.5, v6 and v7).
Windows and RHEL/SUSE Linux guest OS support.
Multiple instrumented Java frameworks, including web services and database connectors.
Code-level traceability with performance and exception metrics.
Deep application insight for Java Applications
Java EE monitoring-supported platforms
Azure-integrated insight with Global Service Monitor (GSM)
! Customer
datacenter
Case study—Deep application insight
Murat Demirkiran, DenizBank, Turkey
“With System Center 2012, we have deeper insight into application performance, which means that we can load-balance cloud resources to deliver maximum performance and avert application failures.”
Case study—DevOps productivity
Ashley Vail, Director of Engineering, India Development
“By using System Center 2012 SP1, our developers are far more effective and can get more done. This is improving efficiency and productivity by approximately 40 percent.”
Overcoming the DevOps disconnect
• Comprehensive monitoring
• Deep application
diagnostics
• Quick isolation
of root cause with
line-of-code level insight
• Process and tool-driven
collaboration
“It’s great for us that Visual
Studio 2012 Lab Manager
leverages Systems Center 2012
Virtual Machine Manager,
which is a full private cloud
management solution.
Deployment of applications
such as SQL Server are now
fully automated through
application templates.”
—Joe Chiu, Software Development Engineer,
Xbox Live, Microsoft Corporation
(in the context of Xbox Live being able to
reduce release cycles from months to days)
IT service management
IT demands
System Center 2012 R2 delivers
Enable easy publishing and consumption of IT services
Integrate people, process and knowledge
Efficient resource utilization and SLA tracking
Self-service requests for private cloud capacity
Industry-standard service management and process workflows
Business and operational insight
Flexible service
delivery
Flexible service delivery
Business and operational insight with chargeback
$ Virtual Machine/day
$ Cloud Membership/day
$ Virtual Machine CPU Core/day
$ Virtual Machine Memory GB/day
$ Virtual Machine Storage GB/day
Price Sheet
Best-in-class performance and scale for Microsoft workloads.
Multi-tenant virtual networking, including edge gateway provisioning to bridge physical and virtual networks.
Support for VM connectivity into virtual Fiber Channel SAN.
Multi-hypervisor support, including Hyper-V, VMware, and Citrix.
Robust open source support: Dynamic Memory for Linux, Unix/ Linux monitoring and configuration.
Unified monitoring for on-premises and Windows Azure infrastructure.
In-box service templates and runbooks for System Center components.
Web-based interfaces to System Center capabilities.
Standards-based top-of-rack network switch configuration.
Windows Server file-based storage and Storage Spaces support.
Extensible service management automation and integration.
Workload protection and recovery across datacenters with Windows Azure.
Hyper-V Recovery Manager.
Easy VM portability and management between Windows Server and Windows Azure.
Deep .NET and Java application monitoring and diagnostics.
Standardized app provisioning with service templates.
Integrated dev-ops with System Center-Visual Studio connector.
Cloud-integrated app and workload insight with Global Service Monitor and System Center Advisor.
Management Packs with extensive built-in knowledge for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint.
Why choose System Center 2012 R2
Enterprise-
class
Simple and
cost-effective
Application
focused
Download and evaluate System Center 2012 R2. http://msft.it/trycloudos
Refer to additional System Center 2012 R2 resources.
System Center marketplace. http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com
Check out our blogs. http://blogs.technet.com/server-cloud
System Center 2012 R2 Course Course sign up
Microsoft Server 2012 R2 Courses Sign up for courses
Next steps: transform your datacenter
Appendix
What’s new in System Center 2012 R2