System Center 2012 R2 technical update

1. System Center 2012 R2technical update Walter Pitrof Sr. Technology Solution Professional Microsoft Switzerland Email: walterp@microsoft.com

2. What is in System Center 2012 R2?

3. Orchestrator Service Manager App Controller

4. 3rd party Supported Server OS

5. How to Upgrade SC 2012 R2: Die Upgrade Reihenfolge Da die System Center Komponenten immer mehr integriert werden, sollte beim Upgrade eine gewisse Reihenfolge eingehalten werden. Microsoft empfiehlt daher folgende Abfolge: 1. Orchestrator 2. Service Manager 3. Data Protection Manager (DPM) 4. Operations Manager 5. Configuration Manager 6. Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 7. App Controller Die System Center Integration Point Map kann sehr hilfreich sein, da diese grafisch aufzeigt, welche Komponenten wie miteinander verbunden sind. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn521010.aspx

6. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2

7. What is in SCVMM 2012 R2? Cloud Services Deployment Fabric Infrastructure Enhancements Fabric Management runs onWindows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Bare Metal Provisioning Host-Update Management HA VMM Server 1000 hosts/25,000 VM’s Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix XenServer Dynamic Optimization Linux Support Powershell Network Management Software defined networking (SDN) Power Management IPAM integration Provision scale-out file server cluster from bare metal Storage Management (SMI-S) Cluster Management http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn246490.aspx

8. Ease of Management and Operations Gen 2 VMs PXE boot VMs using the optimized virtual NIC; (Emulated NIC removed) Reduced infrastructure network requirements (managing two MAC/IP addresses); Less possibility of erroneous configurations Dynamic, Flexible Storage Use UEFI firmware and can boot from virtual SCSI (virtual IDE removed) Support GPT partitioned disks >2.2 TB OS boot disks OS boot disk can be dynamically resized with Windows Server 2012 R2 Online disk resizing Hot Add/Remove DVD Security Now supports Secure Boot Generation 2 VM support in Hyper-V

9. VM Settings: Gen 1 & Gen 2 Generation 2 Generation 1

10. Storage investments Synthetic fibre channel support Management of zones Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) support Shared VHDX support Integration with differencing disks Provision scale-out file server cluster from bare metal

11. VMM 2012 R2 demo

12. Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager Primary VMM Server • Simple • Single Console for recovery across different clouds • Automation DR Orchestration DR Orchestration Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager Recovery VMM Server Recovery site Primary site http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn168841.aspx http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/services/recovery-services/configure-a-backup-vault/ Data Channel (Hyper-V Replica)

15. VMM 2012 R2 – Level 300 Session15:40 – 16:40 Room MontrealSpeaker:Thomas Maurer – MVP VMM Philipp Witschi

16. System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2

17. 360 Infrastructure Monitoring Better integration with VMM Improved Azure Monitoring Improved Management Packs Advisor Attach including support forSC infrastructure components SCOM 2012 R2 Investments Infrastructure and Workloads Improving dashboard performance Widgets Java APM Enhanced Intellitrace integration Enhanced TFS integration DevOps Experience http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/dn249700.aspx

18. Proactive Monitoring with SC Advisor CUSTOMER CONFIGURATIONS Microsoft Customer Service and Support Knowledge Base BEST PRACTICE CONFIGURATION Lync Server SharePoint SQL Server Exchange Server Windows Server Fabric Components

19. Predictable application SLAGlobal Service Monitor Web Test + Schedule Web Test Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Operations Manager Global Service Monitor Results Call Web App ! Workitem + Results Production Application On-premises Results

20. SCOM 2012 R2 demo

21. System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2

22. DPM 2012 R2 Overview Disk-Based Backup Cloud Backup Online Snapshots Active Directory Up to Every 15 minutes Data Protection Manager Tape-Based Backup Data Protection Manager Disaster Recovery with offsite replication and tape http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn296613.aspx

23. Some news in DPM 2012 R2 Virtualization – Private Cloud Protection Full support for Virtualized DPM Leverage VHD/VHDX as storage pool Leverage SynthFC for tape support Leverage VMM Service template to provision DPM on demand Leverage Orchestrator Run Books to configure DPM and set up protection Feature Enhancements “Crash Consistent” backup of Linux VMs – Online Backups! SQL Cluster support for DPMDB Optimized Backup for Dedupe File Server (support for Hot File Dedup)

24. System Center Service Manager 2012 R2

25. Service Manager 2012 R2The Power is in the Integration IT Business Intelligence (OLAP) Asset Management(Provance) Self Service Compliance and Risk Service Level Management Service Request Change and Release SERVICE MANAGER PLATFORM Incident and Problem Authoring Knowledge Base CONNECTORS Workflows Exchange Portal CSV Data Warehouse CMDB http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn299380.aspx SCCM SCOM OrchestratorSCVMM Active Directory

26. System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2

27. Orchestrator Concepts Standard Activities Runbooks Databus Activities A rich set of Out-Of-Box functions that allow you to perform a wide variety of tasks and automations Intelligent tasks that perform defined actions Used to publish and consume information as a runbook executes System level workflows that execute a series of linked activities to complete a defined set of actions http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn251064.aspx Run .Net Script Invoke Web Services Send e-mail Create Checkpoint Create Incident Start Maint Mode Shut Down VM Create Recovery Point Get Data Sources Get Server ID from DPM Check Schedule Update on success E-mail on error Return Data Compare Values Query Database Clone Linux VM

28. Integration Packs from Microsoft

29. Service Request with SCSM & SCO demo

30. Windows Azure Pack

31. Windows Azure Pack Self Service Portal Moves On-Premises Private Service Provider Subscriber Self-ServicePortal Windows Azure Web Sites Web Sites Service Web Sites Apps Apps Databases Apps Plans VMs Self-ServicePortal Service Admin VMs Self-ServicePortal Database Subscriber Self-ServicePortal VMs Users VMs Service Management API Service Management API Common Mgt. Experience Shared Cloud Services Service Bus,etc. Worker Role Web Sites VM Role Web Sites Caching SQL SQL VMs Other Services CDN. Media,, etc. Service Bus Cloud-Enabled Services Move On-Premises http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn296435.aspx R2 w/ Service Provider Foundation Workload Portability Consistent Dev. Experience

32. Windows Azure Pack demo

33. System Center Configurations Manager 2012 R2

34. Some news in SCCM 2012 SP1/R2 • Platform Support: Windows 8.1 & Windows Server 2012 R2 • Windows 8 tablet (Intel SoC) support • Mac OS X • Linux and Unix • Operating System Deployment: Windows To Go support • Application Delivery: Win 8 & Win 8.1 Apps • Deep link applications • Profiles • Wi-Fi • VPN • Certificate • Remote connection http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn236351.aspx

35. OS Platform support What’s new in SCCM 2012 R2

36. VMM 2012 R2 – Level 300 Session15:40 – 16:40 Room MontrealSpeaker:Thomas Maurer – MVP VMM Philipp Witschi