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SYSTEM CENTER ORCHESTRATOR 2012 OVERVIEW

Ana Gabriela HernandezTechnical Specialist – Datacentre Microsoft

SESSION CODE: SEC216

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Agenda

► Cloud– What is Cloud Computing– Datacenter Evolution

► What is System Center Orchestrator 2012► How does Orchestrator work► What's new in Orchestrator 2012

CLOUD COMPUTING

SELF SERVICE

SHARED

SCALABLE & ELASTIC

USAGE BASED

Datacenters Are in a State of Evolution

Evolution toward highly virtual and beyond to cloud

Physical Virtual IaaS PaaS

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Agenda

► Objectives and Takeaways► Cloud► What is System Center Orchestrator 2012

– Integration– Orchestration– Automation

► How does Orchestrator work► What's new in Orchestrator 2012

Orchestrating People, Process and Technology

List of servers

Change Request

Create CR

Run P2V Process

Approval

Service Manager

Demo

System Center Orchestrator 2012

DELIVER FLEXIBLE AND RELABLE

SERVICES

OPTIMIZE AND EXTEND EXISTING

INVESTMENTS

LOWER COSTS AND 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

OpenView Operations

Service Management

Provisioning

Configuration

Monitoring

Protection

Service Manager

Optimize and Extend Existing Investments Through Integration

Optimize heterogeneous environmentsDeeply integrated with System Center

HP Service Manager SoftwareMake your IT service desk enterprise strength

The Best Process Automation Solution

• Easy to use ‘Drag and Drop’ Authoring Experience

• An easy code free publish and subscribe Databus Model

• Connect to Anything - .Net, PowerShell, Web Services, API, Command Line, Java

• Use the QIK to build and extend, creating and publishing your own Integrations

• Best Integration and Orchestration Suite for Microsoft Solutions

• System Center 2012 – Best in Class Cloud Management

• Participate in an Active Community with a large Install Base

• Leverage the Microsoft Partner ecosystem, community and knowledge

Leverage, Learn, Participate Rich, Easy and Powerful

Collaborative Connected

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Agenda

► Objectives and Takeaways► Cloud► What is Orchestrator► How does Orchestrator work

– Concepts– Activities– Integration Packs

► What's new in orchestrator

Basic Runbook

Demo

Orchestrator Concepts

Activities Runbooks Databus Standard Activities

Invoke Web

Services

Compare Values

Send e-mail

Query Database

Run .NetScript

Get Server ID from

DPM

Get Data Sources

Create Recovery

Point

Create Incident

Create Checkpoi

nt

Start Maint Mode

Shut Down

VM

E-mail on error

Update on

success

Clone Linux VM

Return Data

Check Schedule

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 and

automations

Powerful Out-of-Box Standard Activities

Connect Execute Manage Communicate

• Connect to Web Services

• Poll Internet Applications

• Leverage existing integration methods

• Cross Platform activities

• Run system level tasks

• Run Programs and Commands

• Execute code from PowerShell, .Net, Jscript and VB.Net

• Work with Databases

• Set up Monitors and Schedules

• Work with files and folders

• Create multi-part Runbooks

• Leverage decision trees

• Merge Runbook execution paths and information

• Compare results• Send

Notifications• Integrate with e-

mail• Publish results

Databus and Standard Activities

Demo

Extend and Simplify with Integration Packs

► Solution or Application specific– Provide ready-built defined activities– Packaged and Deployed– Brings version control to activities

► Microsoft and 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

Orchestrator Integration Pack Roadmap

Beta releases

• VMware vSphere (support for 4.1)

• IBM Netcool Omnibus (support for 7.3)

• AD 2008/R2 (user onboarding activities)

• FTP

• System Center

• 2007 / 2008 / 2010

July-Sep

Q1 FY12

RTM releases

• VMware vSphere (support for 4.1)

• IBM Netcool Omnibus (support for 7.3)

• AD 2008/R2 (all activities)

• FTP

• System Center (new activities)

• 2007 / 2008 / 2010

Beta releases

• System Center 2012

Oct-Dec

Q2 FY12

• HP

• Service Manager 7.11, 9.x

• Operations Manager 9.x

• iLO & OA (iLO 2, iLO 3)

• System Center 2012

• Configuration Manager

• Data Protection manager

• Operations Manager

• Service Manager

• Virtual Machine Manager

Jan-June

H2 FY12

Note: All content is for the Orchestrator Beta and as such is subject to change

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Agenda

► Objectives and Takeaways► Cloud► What is Orchestrator► How does Orchestrator work► What's new in Orchestrator!

Orchestrator Investments Areas

Operator

Developer

IT Pro

IT Business Manager• Visibility and Insight• Reporting & Analysis

• Initiate• Monitor• Troubleshoot

• Authoring• Testing and Debugging

• Application integration• Create & Extend Integrations

Orchestrator System Requirements

• Datastore

• Local or Remote Instance

• Windows or SQL authentication

• Scale and Performance through SQL

• Compute Resources - 2GB RAM, 200MB disk space and Dual Core CPU minimums

• .Net 4.0 installed on Server

• IIS role enabled for the Orchestration Console

Industry Standard Available and Scalable

Best in Class Foundation

Best in Class Platform

The New Installer Experience

Get up and running in minutes!

Simple end-to-end install

Modular Setup of Components

Automated Prerequisite Remediation

Installer

Demo

Runbook Designer

► Easy authoring and debugging – Drag and drop, Visio-like authoring,

nested Runbooks, built in features like looping and branching.

► Databus– Abstracts developer-level

complexity from the runbook author and enables Hub-and-spoke integration model

► Powerful Out-Of-Box Standard Activities

The Orchestration Console

► New Silverlight web application ► Delegated permissions & access► Operate & Manage Runbooks► Monitor current executions► Initiate new instances► Stop an executing Runbook ► Troubleshoot failures► View Runbook definitions

Console

Demo

The New Web Service

► Exposes Orchestrator runtime functionality and data– Runbook definitions– Runtime data (instances, status)– Environment data (runbook servers)

► Reporting and Analytics► External interface to System

Center► Standards Based

– RESTful web interface– Uses OData (Open Data Protocol)

Using the Quick Integration Kit (QIK)

► Build and distribute your own Integrations

► Use the QIK CLI – Wizard Based GUI – Wraps Command, Program, SSH and

PowerShell executions into activities

► Or leverage the QIK SDK– No Wizard, No GUI– Use .NET or Java IDEs to compile

DLL or JAR resource files

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Example of Community, QIK and imagination…

Looking ahead to the Release Candidate

► Updates to the Quick Integration Kit► Enhancements to the Orchestration Console► New and updated Documentation► IPv6 support► Globalization ► Updated existing System Center IPs ► Beta IPs for System Center 2012

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Summary

– Orchestrator is all about Integration, Orchestration and Automation

– Orchestrator is part of the System Center Suite– Every organization has at least one scenario

that Orchestrator answers!

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