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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Blue company

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

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Next steps: transform your datacenter

Appendix

What’s new in System Center 2012 R2