2. Management of Virtual Environments
Using System Center to Manage Your Entire IT Infrastructure
Management of Virtual Environments
Lasse Carthberg
Product Technology Specialist
Management Solutions
Enterprise & Partner Group, Microsoft Danmark

3. AGENDA Overview Virtual Machine Manager Operations Manager
Configuration Manager
Data Protection Manager
Recap

4. Data Center Management
Automated Provisioning and Updating of Physical and Virtual Environments
Server Consolidation Through Virtualization
Configuration Management
Proactive Platform Monitoring
Application & Service Level Monitoring
Interoperable and Extensible Platform
End to End
Monitoring
Configuration Controls and Reporting
Centralized Security Auditing
Comprehensive Security & Identity and Access Mgmt
Server Compliance
Business Continuity Thru Virtualization Mgmt
Backup and Recovery of Physical and Virtual Resources
Disaster Recovery
Data Protection and Recovery

5. Microsoft Virtualization From the datacenter to the desktop
User State
Virtualization
Document Redirection
Offline files
Server
Virtualization
Presentation Virtualization
Desktop Virtualization
Application Virtualization

6. System Center Solutions People, process, & technology
Microsoft Consulting Services
Management Packs
Partner Ecosystem
Solution Accelerators
Connectors for Interoperability
Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF / ITIL)
Knowledge
Desktop & Device Management
Data Center Management
Mid-Market
Solutions
Products
Open Standards
Virtualization Technology
Windows Platform
Infrastructure
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7. Managing The Server Lifecycle
Backup
Hardware Provisioning
Live host level virtual machine backup
In guest consistency
Rapid recovery
Disaster Recovery
Patch management and deployment
OS and application configuration management
Software upgrades
Virtual Workload Provisioning
Server Management Suite Enterprise
OS / Software Deploy, Patching and State Mgmt
End to end service management
Server and application health monitoring & management
Performance reporting and analysis
Virtual machine management
Server consolidation and resource utilization optimization
Conversions: P2V and V2V
Performance and Health Monitoring 7

8. AGENDA Overview Virtual Machine Manager Operations Manager
Data Configuration Manager
Protection Manager
Recap

9. A Centralized, Heterogeneous Management Solution For The Virtual Datacenter
Maximize Resources
Centralized virtual machine deployment and management for Hyper-V, Virtual Server, and VMware ESX servers
Intelligent placement of Virtual Machines
Fast and reliable P2V and V2V conversion
Comprehensive application and service-level monitoring with Operations Manager
Integrated Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) of VMs
Increase Agility
Rapid provisioning of new and virtual machines with templates
Centralized library of infrastructure components
Leverage and extend existing storage infrastructure and clusters
Allow for delegated management and access of VMs
Leverage Skills
Familiar interface, common foundation
Monitor physical and virtual machines from one console
Fully scriptable using PowerShell

10. VMM 2008 Architecture Virtual Machine Manager Server
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VMM 2008 Architecture
Administrator’s Console
Self Service Web Portal
Operator’s Console
Web Console
Windows PowerShell
Windows® PowerShell
Connector
Virtual Machine Manager Server
Operations Manager Server
Management Interfaces
VMM Library Server
VMware VI3
Virtual Center Server VM VM VM
Template VM VM VM VM
ESX Host
VHD VM VM
ISO
Script VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
SAN Storage
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11. Performance And Resource Optimization (PRO)
Workload and application aware resource optimization
Extensible through the Operations Manager 2007 MP framework
Create policies that VMM acts upon tips automatically or manually
Minimize downtime and accelerating time to resolution
Enables partners to deliver value add to our mutual customers

12. Performance And Resource Optimization (PRO)

13. AGENDA Overview Virtual Machine Manager Operations Manager
Configuration Manager
Data Protection Manager
Recap

14. End To End Monitoring Proactive platform, application and service-level monitoring
Proactive monitoring of IT service health to monitor
the health of distributed applications all the way down
to hardware level
End user perspective
monitoring
Service oriented views,
dashboards, and reports
Easy to use templates and
Service Designer
3rd party management packs
for other applications and
infrastructure

15. Microsoft Cross-Platform Extensions
WS-Man (Windows Remote Management)
WS-Man (OpenWSMan)
CIMOM (OpenPegasus)
OpsMgr Providers
OS Resources
HP-UX

16. Planed Platforms Priority Platform Beta RTM P0
Linux/SUSE Enterprise 10 SP1 (x86) 
Linux/Redhat Enterprise 5 (x86)
HP-UX 11iv3 (PA-RISC/IA64)
Solaris 10 (SPARC/x86) P1
Linux/SUSE Enterprise 10 (x64)
Linux/SUSE Enterprise 9 (x86)
Linux/SUSE Enterprise 9 (x64)
Linux/Redhat Enterprise 4 (x86)
Linux/Redhat Enterprise 4 (x64)
HP-UX 11iv2 (PA-RISC)
Solaris 9 (SPARC)
AIX 5.3 (POWER) P2
AIX 5.2 (POWER)

17. AGENDA Overview Virtual Machine Manager Operations Manager
Configuration Manager
Data Protection Manager
Recap

18. IT Systems Configuration Lifecycle
Software
Distribution
SW and HW
Updates
Desired Configuration
OS Deployment
Standardization
Asset Management
Consolidation, License Compliance
Out of Band Management,
Remote Control

19. Desired Configuration Management
Vision
Define configuration baselines
Identify required and prohibited
configurations
Audit compliance of Windows systems
Core Scenarios
Detect configuration “drift”
Improve Helpdesk troubleshooting
and “time-to-resolve”
Regulatory compliance reporting
Change verification

20. Desired Configuration Management
56 Configuration Packs available now

21. Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Solution Accelerator
Locate Offline Machine in VMM Library
Move it to Hyper-V “patch” server
Start the Machine
Identify, download & apply patches
Shutdown Machine
Move it back to VMM Library
Continue…
Hyper-V Server
Virtual Machine Manager Library

22. AGENDA Overview Virtual Machine Manager Operations Manager
Configuration Manager
Data Protection Manager
Recap

23. DPM 2007 Disk-based Recovery Online Snapshots (up to 512) DPM 2007
Active Directory®
System State
Disk-based
Recovery Online Snapshots (up to 512)
Up to Every 15 minutes
DPM 2007
With Integrated Disk & Tape
Tape-based
Archive
Offline Tape
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008
file shares and directories
DPM 2007
Continuous Data Protection for Windows Application and File Servers
Rapid and Reliable Recovery from disk instead of tape
Advanced Technology for enterprises of all sizes

24. AGENDA Overview Virtual Machine Manager Operations Manager
Configuration Manager
Data Protection Manager
Recap

25. Server Management Suite Enterprise
The System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise is the solution for virtualization management
Provides comprehensive management for physical and Windows Server and storage environments and includes
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Enterprise Edition
System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Enterprise Edition
System Center Configuration Manager 2007
Provides the rights to manage an unlimited number of operating system environments (“OSEs”) on a physical host server
The Server Management Suite Enterprise is licensed on a per physical host basis

26. Resources Microsoft System Center Homepage
Microsoft Virtualization Homepage
Events
Whitepapers
Downloads
Case Studies
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Hyper-V Homepage

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This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.