Webinar: Understanding the System Center suite & Windows Server 2012

Chris Sheridan

Senior Solutions Architect

Datacenter Management Session

System Center Suite 2012

How do I keep my mobile users productive?

Should I embrace Cloud services?

Should we go with Rich clients or Thin Clients?

How do I manage costs?

How do I take advantage of virtualization?

How do I keep my data safe & applications secure?

Should employees bring their own PCs for work?

Choices

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Remember


Data & User Settings Considerations

How will you

provide data

security on all

devices?

How will users

access data from

different PCs?

Is data searchable

across PCs, local

networks & the

cloud?

Complete Desktop Strategy

Data & Settings

Applications

Operating System

Hardware

Hardware Considerations

Will consumer

devices be allowed

on your network?

How will you

support mobile

devices?

How will you

manage the

hardware lifecycle?

Operating System Considerations

How can users get to

their environment

from other PCs?

How many images

will you need to

maintain?

How will you handle

migration?

Application Considerations

How will you

provide access

from anywhere?

Do you know how

many applications

you have?

How will you

manage the

application

lifecycle?


Right Technology

(Virtualization for PC with local apps and data) (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, RDS)

Best For

Benefits

For all desktops For all organizations; not for all desktops


Challenge


Together

OpenView Operations

HP Service Manager SoftwareMake your IT service desk enterprise strength

Service Manager

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Tool 2

ApplicationConfigurationAdministrator

Data Center Management

Dynamic

Management

Dinner Now

Web

Order01DN

App.

Order

Tracker

Tool 3

Windows Server/

Virtualization Administrator

Tool 4Tool 2

Storage Administrator

Tool 5

Network Administrator

Tool 1Tool 1

Monitoring Operator


Approach

Traditional

Data Center

Well-known, stable, and secure

Utilization <15%

Virtualized

Data Center

Utilization increases to >50%

Management costs decrease

On-Premises

Dynamic Data

Center:

Private Cloud

Management costs decrease significantly

IT as a Service

Chargeback

Off-Premises

Dynamic Data

Center: Public

Cloud


System Center & Data Center Management

Deliver flexible and cost-effective infrastructure with what you already

know and own

Heterogeneous support

Process automation

Self-service infrastructure

Predictable application service levels delivered by

leading monitoring experiences and deep

application insight

Comprehensive application

manageability

Service-centric approach

Deep application monitoring

and diagnosis

Private and public cloud computing on your terms

managed with a common toolset

Flexibility with delegation

and control

Common console across

clouds

Physical, virtual, and

cloud management

Predictable Applications

Productive Infrastructure

Your Cloud


CMDB, Incident,

Problem, Release

Mgmt, Service

Request

Virtual Workload

Provisioning, Multi

Hypervisor, Cloud

Mgmt, Self Service

OS / Software

Deploy, Patching

and Settings Mgmt,

3rd party OS

Performance,

Health, Network,

Application

Monitoring, Best

Practices

Backup & Disaster

Recovery

Orchestration Run

Book Automation,

Integration

Service ManagerOrchestrator

«Concero»


System Center Configuration Manager


Unify Infrastructure

Mobile, Physical & Virtual: Single, unified tool to manage all your client desktops, thin clients, mobile devices, and virtual desktops

Integrated Security & Compliance: Single infrastructure for malware protection, vulnerability remediation, and visibility into noncompliant systems

Integrated Service Management: Inventory information shared with System Center Service Manager reduces problem resolution times; integration with Service Manager self-service tools improves user satisfaction

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Secure over-the-air enrollment

Monitor & remediate out-of-

compliance devices

Deploy & remove applications

Inventory

Remote Wipe(WinCE 5.0, 6.0; Windows

Mobile 6.0, 6.1, 6.5.x)

NOKIA

EAS-based policy delivery

Discovery & Inventory

Settings Policy

Remote Wipe

Light

Management

Depth

Management

Management


Experience

System Center Configuration

Manager (SCCM) 2012

examines:

User identity

Application

dependencies

Device type

Network bandwidth

Administrative Intent


Self-Service


Your Cloud

Monitoring for Productive Infrastructure & Predictable Applications

Flexible & cost-effective infrastructure monitoring

• Heterogeneous support

• Network device monitoring

• Simplified management infrastructure

Market-leading .NET and JEE application

performance monitoring and diagnostics

• End-to-end view

• Establish and manage SLAs

• Precise error diagnosis

Comprehensive monitoring of your

datacenter and cloud

• Integrated physical, virtual, and cloud management

• Common console across datacenter and cloud

• Rich reporting

Predictable Applications

Productive Infrastructure


System Center Operations Manager

• End to End Service Monitoring

• Proactive management of IT services

• End user perspective monitoring

• Service oriented views and dashboards

• Best of Breed for Windows

• Expertise for over 50 Microsoft applications, servers and clients

• Client monitoring of Vista, XP and the Office Suite

• Audit collection services archives security logs

• Increased Efficiency and Control

• Automatically discover and deploy appropriate monitoring policies

• Self tuning thresholds

• Easier to use, customize and author reports

Intelligent monitoring leveraging Microsoft IP, proactive alerting of issues before they become

problems, operational reporting vs. SLAs


Flexible & Cost-Effective Infrastructure Monitoring

One-step setup for

high availability using

commodity hardwareX

OPS

MG

R

DB

OPS MGR

DW

Heterogeneous monitoring


Predictable Performance & Availability of Critical Applications

Data servers

Application servers

Web servers

Application users

Business

Application

View of application user’s performance


PhysicalSaaS

PaaS Virtual

IaaS

Your Datacenter & Cloud

Operations

Manager

2012

Console

Web ConsoleSharePoint Console


Provisioning Your Private Cloud Infrastructure & Applications

Provision & Manage Standardized

Application Services

• Provision standardized

applications

• Simplify application

management

• Cloud enable existing apps

Deliver Flexible & Cost-Effective Infrastructure

• Pool and allocate

datacenter resources

• Multi-hypervisor

management

• Flexible delegation with

control

• Self-service infrastructure

Optimize Virtualization Management

• Optimize infrastructure

based on application needs

• Highly available private

cloud infrastructure

• Industry standards support


System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Maximize Resources

• Centralized virtual machine deployment and management

• Intelligent placement of Virtual Machines

• Fast and reliable P2V and V2V conversion

• Comprehensive service-level enterprise monitoring with Operations Manager

Increase Agility

• Rapid provisioning of new and virtual machines with templates and profiles

• Centralized library of infrastructure components

• Leverage and extend existing storage infrastructure

• Allow for delegated management of VMs

Leverage Skills

• Familiar interface, common foundation

• Monitor physical and virtual machines from one console

• Fully scriptable using PowerShell

Cross-platform management of Virtual Machines, P to V, resource management

(horsepower vs. requirements)


Intelligent, incremental backups (SQL, Exchange, AD, SharePoint, etc.) every 15 minutes, rapid data

retrieval from disk/tape

System Center Data Protection Manager

Continuous Data Protection for Windows Application and File Servers

• Lossless Restores for Applications

• Superior application integration for Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint Portal and Virtual Servers

• One-click application restore

• Rapid and Reliable Recovery

• Shorter backup windows

• Shorter restore times

• Empowered End-User Recovery

• Robust monitoring and reporting

• Advanced Technology for Enterprises of all sizes• Seamless Disk and Tape Integration

• Unified protection policies across data types

• SLA driven backup process

• Intuitive UI

• Enhanced media reliability Media Encryption


Data Protection

Manager

Online Snapshots (up to 512)

Disk-based

Recovery

Active

Directory®

System State

Up to

Every 15 minutes

Tape-based

Backup

Disaster Recovery

with offsite replication & tape

Data Protection

Manager

file services

Data Protection Manager


CMDB & Service ticket tracking, User Self-Service; leverages Ops Manager & Config Manager data

(interop)

Asset Management

Self Service IT Business Intelligence

Service Level Management

Compliance and Risk

Portal

Incident & Problem

WorkflowsKnowledge

Base Data WarehouseCMDB

Authoring

Change

Active Directory

Incident and problem management.

Comprehensive, easy-to-use, and

customizable Service Desk capabilities

Asset Lifecycle Management. Central

integration point for service

management workflows across System

Center solutions

Change Management. Built-in support

for service management best practice

frameworks, such as MOF &

Information Technology

Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

System Center Service Manager


System Center Orchestrator

Deliver Flexible & Reliable Services

Optimize & Extend Existing Investments

Lower Costs & Improve Predictability

• Optimize heterogeneous

environments with integration

packs

• Easy–to-extend platform for

building custom integrations

with the Quick Integration Kit

(QIK)

• Accelerate time to value with

flexible process workflows

• Improve service reliability across

multiple tools, systems, and

department silos

• Enable IT resources to focus

on work that adds business

value

• Reduce error-prone manual

activities while lowering costs

AutomationOrchestrationIntegration


Orchestrator Concepts

Activities Runbooks DatabusStandard

Activities

Invoke

Web

Services

Compare

Values

Send e-

mail

Query

Database

Run

.Net

ScriptGet

Server

ID from

DPM

Get Data

Sources

Create

Recovery

Point

Create

Incident

Create

Check

point

Start

Maint

Mode

Shut

Down

VM

E-mail

on

error

Update

on

successClone

Linux

VM Return

Data

Check

Schedul

e

Intelligent tasks

that perform defined

actions

System level workflows

that execute a series of

linked activities to

complete a defined set

of actions

Used to publish

and consume

information as a

runbook executes

A rich set of

Out-Of-Box functions

that allow you to

perform a wide variety

of tasks & automations


Integration Packs

Solution or Application specific

• Provide ready-built defined activities

• Packaged and Deployed

• Brings version control to activities

Microsoft & Partner provided

• All major enterprise management products covered Out-Of-Box

• HP, IBM, CA, BMC, EMC

•

Build your own with the QIK!

• Leverage the Community ecosystem


Integrated End to End Management

Configuration Management

(Physical & Virtual)

End-To-End Monitoring

Server Compliance

Data Protection &

Recovery

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The world’s biggest apps

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• Transforms the

datacenter

• Enables modern apps

• Unlocks insights on any

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• Empowers people-

centric IT

Modern platform for the world’s apps

The Cloud Operating System (OS)


Windows Server 2012

Virtualization

The power of many servers, the simplicity of one

Every App, Any Cloud

Modern Workstyle, Enabled

“Windows Server 2012: Takes your breath away… Features will be a boon for enterprises creating private clouds.”

— Jonathan Hassel, Computerworld

“Windows Server 2012 –can you say cloud?”

— Richard Fichera, Vice President,

Forrester Research, ZDNet

“Nothing from Microsoft, and I mean literally nothing, has ever been this ambitious.”

— Jason Perlow, ZDNet

“A dynamite product.”

Al Gillen, Vice President, International Data Corporation (IDC),

IDG News Service


Making it Real

System Center

2012

&

Windows

Server 2012

Plan

Next Steps

DeployLearn Prove

Solution Architect

Session

Link the business

architecture with

technical architecture to

envision the best

solution, roadmap, and

architecture.

Onsite Meeting

No Charge

System Center

(SCCM) Production

Pilot

Create a robust

desktop management

solution to deploy OS

images, applications

and patches all within

a pilot community.

SCCM Production

Pilot

$9,000

POC &

Deployment and

Bundled Cloud

Solutions Funds

Work with Sentri on a

POC or deployment

and you may qualify

for valuable funds

available for Cloud

OS solutions (System

Center, Windows

Server, Azure).

POC Funds:

Up to $7500

Deployment Funds:

Up to $25,000

System Center

Production Pilot

Get Started with a

production based

System Center 2012 site

and bring a Pilot Group

of up to 25 systems

under management for

a Pilot period of 14

days. Post pilot can be

leveraged toward a full

rollout and expanded

beyond this initial

scope.

System Center

Production Pilot

Starting at $20,000

System Center

2012

&

Windows

Server 2012

DeployLearn Prove

Solution Architect

Session

Link the business

architecture with

technical architecture to

envision the best

solution, roadmap, and

architecture.

Onsite Meeting

No Charge

System Center

(SCCM) Production

Pilot

Create a robust

desktop management

solution to deploy OS

images, applications

and patches all within

a pilot community.

Cost:

$9,000

POC &

Deployment and

Bundled Cloud

Solutions Funds

Work with Sentri on a

POC or deployment

and you may qualify

for valuable funds

available for Cloud

OS solutions (System

Center, Windows

Server, Azure).

POC Funds:

Up to $7500

Deployment Funds:

Up to $25,000

System Center

Production Pilot

Get Started with a

production based

System Center 2012 site

and bring a Pilot Group

of up to 25 systems

under management for

a Pilot period of 14

days. Post pilot can be

leveraged toward a full

rollout and expanded

beyond this initial

scope.

Cost:

Starting at $20,000

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