Manage the Data Centre with System Center 2012 R2

(VMM/SPF/WAP)

Damian Flynn, MVP

info@DamianFlynn.comwww.DamianFlynn.com

@damian_flynnwww.petri.co.il/author/damian-flynn

Damian Flynn is the Infrastructure Architect. His current focus is on Software

Defined Networks (SDN) with “Windows Azure Pack”, with perspective on

Orchestration of repeatable processes in “Dev/Ops” scenarios.

He has a keen interest in Cloud Computing from both a business strategy and

technical viewpoint and presents sessions on building and managing Private/Hybrid

Clouds at a number of industry events. Damian authored the Cloud chapters on two

books, is active in many MS Programs, blogs at www.damianflynn.com &

www.petri.co.il, tweets at @damian_flynn, and has published a number of white

papers and technical articles.

• Shift to Cloud Computing

• Manage the Datacenter with SCVMM 2012 R2

• Fabric Management – Manager Storage, Fabric and Compute

• Services and VM Management

Session Objectives

• Why do we need Management?

• Why should I do Cloud Computing?

• How do I move to the Public/Hybrid Cloud?

CLOUD COMPUTING

Enabling IT

Advanced Virtualization

Resource Pooling

Efficient Capacity Planning

Fabric Management

Service Management

Shift from Basic to Standard

Shift from Standard to RationalizedEnable Dynamic IT

model

Cloud Transition

Data Center FabricStorage

iSCSI, Fiber Channel, SMB, Storage Spaces

Network

Logical Networks, VLAN’s, NVGRE

Compute

Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, Citrix Xen

Clouds (Resources Pools)

Tenants (Service Customers)

VMs and Services (Infrastructure)

System Center Virtual Machine

Manager

DeploymentManagementAutomationMonitoring

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Storage

Insight Flexibility Automation

System Center VMM Storage Investments

Windows Storage Management API (Windows PowerShell and WMI)

Pass-through API for extensibility (WMI)

Storage Array

Vendor-provided SMI-S provider (CIMXML or WMI)

Storage Array

Vendor-provided transport and/or protocol

Just Bunch Of DiskJBOD

System Center VMM Storage Plumbing

Windows Storage Partners

• Virtual Fibre Channel support

• Management of zones

• Leverage of the Windows Server 2012 ODX capability

• Shared VHDX support

• Integration of storage differencing disks optimizations.

• Storage spaces File

• Provision Scale-Out File Server cluster (Inc. Bare Metal)

System Center VMM R2 Storage Features

System Center VMM 3rd Party Management

Storage Management Demo

Networking

Is Network Management Relevant???

I wish I could just buy Damoa pint, and have all this

done in his software defined network.

Paul, Are you nearly ready

yet?

• Logical Networks• Physical Network Infrastructure

• Network Sites• Network Sites / VLANs

• IP Pools• IP Address Pools for deployment

System Center VMM Network Management

• Logical Networks• Physical Network Infrastructure / Sites / IP Pools

• VM Networks• Virtual Networks for VMs

• Port Profiles• New Features from Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

• Logical Switch• Logical Network Switch which combines all features

System Center VMM Network Management

System Center VMM Networking

System Center VMM SP1/R2 Networking

System Center VMM SP1/R2 Networking

• Software Defined Networking • Hyper-V Network

Virtualization

• Extensible Virtual Switch

• Network Policy/Offloads• SR-IOV

• DHCP Guard

• IPSec Task Offload

• Bandwidth Control

• Trunk Mode

System Center VMM SP1/R2 Networking

• Virtual Machine running Server 2012 R2 with RRAS Role

• On dedicated Hyper-V Host

• 50 S2S VPNs / 200 virtual Subnets per single GW

• Service Template for Scale Out / Redundancy

• Support for Site-to-Site VPN with 3rd Party Products from Cisco, Juniper, Citrix

Multi-Tenant NVGRE Gateway

AD DC / NPS / DNS

DNS

DHCP

IPAM

Management

Server

SCVMM

• Extend IPAM with virtual IP Addresses managed by VMM

System Center VMM IPAM Integration

Network Management Demo

Clouds, VM Templates and Services

Services Overview

Services Overview

Why Services?

• Manage multi-tier applications across multiple servers as a single

unit

• Scale out based on demand

• Composibility of OS and Applications, allows users to manage fewer

OS imagesTemplate

• Specifies machine and connectivity requirements

• Starting point for services

• Deployed services are always linked to their templates

• Enables servicing of the instances

Services Demo

Self Service

App Controller

• Manage VMs and Services

• Private & Public Cloud

• Windows Azure & Hoster

Windows Azure Pack

• Cloud Offerings for your Private Cloud

• Service Providers

• IaaS

Questions?

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THANK YOU!Damian Flynn MVP System Center

Cloud and Datacentre