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Chris E. Avis

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Agenda

• Introduction

• System Center 2012

• Configure and Deploy Infrastructure Components • Compute

• Storage

• Network

• Cluster

• Next Steps

• Q&A

Customer Challenges

• I need to be able to easily provision physical servers

with bare-metal OS deployment

• I have different types of storage that have different

costs and I want to ensure that the correct storage is

being used for my VMs

• I have a complex networking environment, and I don’t

want to expose that complexity to folks who don’t

need to know it

• I need to collect these fabric resources and build

clusters for my virtualization environment

Deploy your infrastructure components from the

different physical resources in your data center. Deploy

your compute infrastructure through bare-metal OS

deployments of Hyper-V servers. Discover, classify, and

allocate my storage infrastructure for private cloud use.

Abstract my networking infrastructure for use in my

private cloud. Pull these infrastructure components

together and create cluster for use as the underlying

infrastructure for the private cloud.

DC Admin

Configure and Deploy Infrastructure Components

Self Service

Service

Delivery &

Automation

System Center Helps Deliver IT as a Service

Deploy

Configure

Service

Model

DC

Admin

Operate

Monitor

Virtual Machine Manager

Operations Manager

App Controller

Service Manager Service Manager

Orchestrator

Configuration Manager

Data Protection Manager

App

Owner

Application Management Service Delivery & Automation Infrastructure Management

System Center 2012 Cloud & Data Center Management

PREDICTABLE APPLICATIONS PRODUCTIVE

INFRASTRUCTURE YOUR CLOUD

Heterogeneous support

Process automation

Self-service infrastructure

Flexibility with delegation and control

Applications self-service across clouds

Physical, virtual, and cloud management

Deep application monitoring and diagnosis

Comprehensive application manageability

Service-centric approach

Flexibility with delegation and control

Applications self-service across clouds

Physical, virtual, and cloud management

Heterogeneous support

Process automation

Self-service infrastructure

Transform Your Data Center into a Private Cloud

STORAGE

Discover, classify, and allocate

storage for use by the private

cloud. Provide the correct

storage for use with

appropriate access.

COMPUTE

Deploy your compute

resources, taking them from

bare metal to fully deployed

for your physical and

virtualization hosts.

NETWORK

Abstract your complex

networking infrastructure into

logical networks for cloud

use. Assign IP, virtual IP, and

MAC addresses from pools

and integrate with load

balancers.

CLUSTER

Consolidate your

infrastructure componenents

for use in a private cloud.

BARE-METAL DEPLOYMENT OF

COMPUTE RESOURCES

Configuration Manager Virtual Machine Manager

Provision Infrastructure

Physical Servers

Virtual Servers

DC Admin

Deploy

Configure

Virtual Machine Manager

Configuration Manager

Automated Bare-Metal Hyper-V Deploy in Action

Bare-metal

server

WDS server

VHD

Drivers

Host profile

contoso

Library server

Hyper-V server

1

3

2 4

5

6 7

8

9

OOB reboot

Boot from PXE

Download VHD Inject drivers

Authorize

PXE boot

Run generic command

execution scripts and

configure partitions Customize and

domain join

Enable Hyper-V

Download WINPE

Hyper-V server

Host Group

Hyper-V server Hyper-V server

Host Group

VMM server

Hyper-V server Hyper-V server

Host Group

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

STANDARDIZATION

Service Manager

Processes Request Template

Standardize Offerings SERVICE OFFERINGS REQUEST OFFERINGS

AUTOMATION

Define the services that IT will

deliver to its consumers.

Specify requests available for each

service and what information will

be required to fulfill each request.

Define the supporting

organizational activities needed to

deliver on the request and ensure

traceability and compliance.

Cloud

services

Server

services

Storage

services

Request to

extend VM

Decommission

VMs

Request new

VM

Cost and SLA

information

Knowledge articles

Input values

Assignment

Notification

Approval

PUBLISHED TO THE SERVICE CATALOG Systems automation

Service Offering

• Work Item used to identify and classify

standard IT services

• Contains one or more Request Offerings

• Consistent delivery of service-related details

including:

• Knowledge articles

• Service level agreement information

• Cost and chargeback–related information

Request Offerings

• Offering created by IT service provider that

consumers access and complete form from the

Service Catalog

• Related to a Service Request

• Contains user prompts for input data

• Free text entry

• List

• Query-based list

• True/False

• Maps user prompts to default values and activity

automation activities

Automation

• Set up up classification for Service Requests

• Invoke workflow rules to route requests for

immediate action

• Link to process automation such as assignment and

notification

• Map user prompts to Request properties that

automatically populate run book activity variables

Classifications

Routing

Process Automation No

tifi

cati

on

s

Run books

Reporting

SELF SERVICE

Service Manager

Self Service through Service Catalog CONTROLLED EMPOWERMENT ROLE-BASED SIMPLIFIED PORTAL

Translate business language into IT

language. Requests are defined to

capture information required to

fulfill the specific request manually

or via automation.

Offerings are delivered based on

user’s role in the organization.

Service catalog designed for easy

navigation.

Controlled Empowerment

• Provider-published and user-initiated

• Expresses IT requests in business

language

• Consistent delivery of service each

time, every time

• Enables consumer to choose what

level of service + cost they want

Role-Based

• User sees offerings based on

their role

• Dynamic: User role mapped to

a Service Manager group

within Active Directory

Private Cloud Offerings

Enterprise LOB App Offerings

VDI Offerings

Development Offerings

Simplified Portal

Easy to use Portal

• Silverlight web parts hosted in SharePoint

Foundation 2010 or higher

• Customizable out-of-box web parts using

SharePoint admin tools

• Extensible via custom web parts

Portal features

• Customizable, dynamic Forms

• Physical and virtual compute infrastructure

deployment

• Storage infrastructure management

• Logical network infrastructure abstraction

• Cluster creation brings the infrastructure

together

Configure and Deploy Infrastructure Components

DC

Admin

Next Steps

Microsoft System Center 2012:

aka.ms/scevals

• Virtual Machine Manager

• Operations Manager

• Orchestrator

• Service Manager

• Data Protection Manager

• Configuration Manager

• App Controller

System Center Marketplace:

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com

Blogs:

http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter

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