Windows Server System Center 2012

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Windows Server 2012

System Center 2012

Cloud optimize your IT

Built from the cloud up

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Brandon Meyer

• Microsoft Virtual Technology

Specialist

• MCITP, VTSP, VSP, CCSP, BACE,

VMTSP, VMSP

• SWC Engagement Manager,

Virtualization Lead

• 12 Years of IT experience

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• Microsoft Central Region Partner of

the Year 2007, 2009, 2011 & 2012

• Inc. 500|5000 Fastest-Growing U.S.

Companies 2012

• Crain’s Chicago Business “Best

Places to Work” 2012

• 101 Best and Brightest Companies

to Work For 2009, 2010, 2011 &

2012

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Topics

• What is a Cloud?

• Cloud Optimize your IT

• Windows Server 2012

• Beyond Virtualization

• The Power of Many Servers, The Simplicity of One

• Modern Workstyle, Enabled

• System Center 2012

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What is a private cloud?

What is a public cloud?

What is a hosted private cloud?

What is the cloud?

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Beyond Virtualization

Cloud Optimize Your IT

with Windows Server 2012

and System Center 2012

Modern

Workstyle, Beyond

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Business Drivers

• Need for flexible and dynamic data

centers

• Ensure data protection and

management

• Control cost and improve

efficiency

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• Multitenant security and isolation

• Scale beyond VLANs with Hyper-V Network

Virtualization

• Quality of Service

Complete Virtualization Platform

Beyond Virtualization

Delivering a fully isolated, multitenant environment that includes tools to

guarantee SLAs, enable chargebacks, and support self-service delivery

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• Virtual Fibre Channel in Hyper-V

• Offloaded Data Transfer support in Hyper-V

• Hyper-V host scale and scale-up workload support

Increase Scalability & Performance

Beyond Virtualization

Delivering a high-density, scalable environment that can be adapted to

perform at the optimum level based on customer needs

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• Hyper-V Replica

• Incremental backup

• Cross-premises connectivity – Network Virtualization

Connect to Cloud Services

Beyond Virtualization

Common identity and management framework for secure and reliable cross-premises connectivity

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Business Drivers

• Budget pressure on capital and

operating expenditures

• Need for continuously available

services

• Excellent customer service and site

performance

• Minimize failures

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Continuous Availability

• Network availability with Windows NIC Teaming

• Virtual machine live storage migration

• Transparent failover

Providing affordable, high IT service uptime designed to protect your

environment and endure failures transparently

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Cost Efficiency

• High-performance, continuously available file share

storage for server applications

• Storage Spaces

• Support for thin provisioning and TRIM

Leveraging commodity storage, networking, and server infrastructure as well as increased power efficiency for superior acquisition and operating economics of the platform

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Management Efficiency

• Multiserver management and feature deployment

with Server Manager

• Resilient and simple automation with Windows

PowerShell 3.0

Broader automation of common

management tasks and a path toward full lights-out automation

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Business Drivers

• Consumerization of IT - BYOD

• New, broad choices in devices

• Desire for consistent user

experiences

• Compliance and security

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Access virtually anywhere, any device

Modern Workstyle,

Enables seamless, always-on access to a virtualized work environment from

virtually anywhere, including branch

locations and public connectivity services

• Remote Access

• Remote Desktop Services

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Full Windows experience

Modern Workstyle,

Enables a personalized and rich user experience from virtually any device while adapting to different network conditions quickly and responsively

• RemoteFX for WAN

• User Profile Disk

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Enhanced data security and

compliance

Modern Workstyle,

Offers granular access to data and corporate resources based on strong

identity and device security status, as well as simplified configuration and

administration for remote access

• Central access policies to apply safety net policies

• Central audit policies for compliance reporting and

forensic analysis

• Automatic Rights Management Services (RMS)

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Cloud optimize your IT with

Windows Server 2012

Scale and secure workloads, cost-effectively build a

private cloud, and securely connect to cloud services

Beyond Virtualization

Efficiently manage infrastructure while maximizing

uptime and minimizing failures and downtime

The Power of Many

Servers, The Simplicity

of One

Support a mobile and flexible workstyle

Modern Workstyle,

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System Center 2012

Orchestrator

Service Manager

Virtual Machine Manager

Data Protection Manager

Operations Manager

Configuration Manager

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Microsoft Private Cloud

System Center

Simplify with integrated physical, virtual and cloud (private and public) management

Improve agility with cloud computing infrastructure

Optimize service delivery across datacenter infrastructure and business critical services

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Microsoft Private Cloud

Creating a self expanding infrastructure

Private Cloud and

1

Generate alert

indicating high web tier load

Operations Manager

Workflow

2

Send alert as incident

Service Manager

Runbook

3

Send request for new Web tier VM

Orchestrator

4

Create a new Web tier VM using application’s service template

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Public or Private Cloud

Think

And

not

Or

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Time & Money – step by step

7 minutes 20 minutes 10 minutes 18 minutes

May require escalation and

lag time

3 minutes

7 minutes 3 minutes

How much total time?

68 minutes of work time

Triage Diagnose Escalate Fix Report

Open ticket. Populate with data gathered Event Validation

Gather CI service data, check for known outages

Update event

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ROI – step by step

1 minute

1 minute 1 minute 3 minutes seconds

1 minute seconds

Less than 8 minutes

total

time

Monitor Ops Mgr Alert Check Service availability Query Related CIs Lookup Scheduled changes Create & populate service desk ticket Update alert in Ops Mgr Restore

service service Verify availability Update Ops Mgr alert Close service desk ticket

Triage Diagnose Escalate Fix Report

Open ticket. Populate with data gathered Event Validation

Gather CI service data, check for known outages

Update event

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Automated Processes

VM Provisioning Process

Monitor Service request

Stop VM

Update

request Update request Update & close request

Clone new

VM properties Update Remove from

Ops Manager

Test VM Deploy

Applications Application Verify

Add to Ops Manager Create CI Retire CI Create incident Detach Storage

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Windows Server 2012 – System Center 2012 Demo

Built for the future, while

supporting today’s business

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Efficient,

breakthrough

platform for

public and

private cloud

computing

Built for the

cloud, supporting

today’s business

needs…and

tomorrow’s

Allows IT

organizations to

leverage and

optimize existing

investments

Built from the cloud up

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