Monitoring and Managing the Hybrid Cloud with System Center

Kerrie Meyler, MVPnetworkworld.com/author/kerrie-meyler/

John Joyner, MVPopsmgrunleashed.wordpress.com/

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Kerrie Meyler

"We now have the ability to tie together the cloud and the server. That is a very unique capability that we have. So who am I competing with? Amazon has no capability to compete there. They don’t have a server. Nor does Google. Oracle doesn’t have the equivalent capability. So those are the places where we want to really excel." Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Fortune Magazine

This "both-and" model is sometimes called "hybrid cloud," and some recent moves show how it's the lynchpin of Nadella's cloud strategy.

Holistic approach to heterogeneous environments

Introduction to Hybrid Cloud Management

With properly deployed instrumentation, problem identification and resolution can be dramatically accelerated.

You need to place the right sensors in the right places, and present data to decision makers in dashboards and diagrams that can be processed visually and instantly.

High Level Steps to Hybrid Cloud Management

1. Deploy System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) with appropriate management packs, and then discover the computers and services in your cloud and on-premises estates.

2. Create distributed applications in SCOM that model your hybrid cloud applications.

3. Add fidelity to your distributed applications by considering all internal and external dependencies.

4. Create a presentation layer for the health and status of your hybrid cloud applications by authoring dashboards, charts, and diagrams that leverage the human power of visual processing.

Deploying Operations Manager and Management Packs

• SCOM as part of a System Center Strategy

• SCOM Gateways and Certificate Authentication

SCOM Architecture to Support Hybrid Cloud Monitoring

SCOM Management Packs for the Hybrid Cloud

• Microsoft Azure Fabric Management Pack:VMs, Cloud Services, and Storage

• Amazon AWS Management Pack:CloudFormation Stacks, CloudWatch Metric Alarms, EBS Volumes, EC2 Instances, Elastic Beanstalk Application, and Elastic Load Balancers

Hybrid Cloud Distributed Applications

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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

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Add Fidelity by Considering all Internal and External Dependencies

Domain name registration, name server availability

Specific DNS A, CNAME, MX, SRV, or other records

Firewall, router, switch, proxy, and load balancer devices

Active Directory and/or other security identity provider(s)

ISP and WAN circuits to Internet and between datacenter(s)

Datacenter fabric aspects: Virtualization hosts, storage networks

External databases or data sources such as web feeds

Public cloud service subscription(s)

Questions to ask that can add Intelligence to your DA

If everything in my DA were green and users were still reporting an outage, what are the most likely things that could be wrong?

If something in my DA were yellow or red, what would be next things I would check to narrow down the cause?

Leverage Presentation and Visualization Tools

SCOM Diagram Defaults

Visio and SharePoint Options

Dashboards and Live Maps by Savision

SCOM Dashboard by Squared Up

http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenterramblings/archive/2014/11/01/scom-creating-a-visio-dashboard-and-publishing-to-sharepoint.aspx

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