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11. Scenario capabilities
Web and application
Virtualization Storage platform
Technical capabilities
Management
Networking and automation VDI Identity and access
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13. Support for Windows Server 2012 and SQL 2012
Chargeback for
New management Support for Azure
Network Virtualisation Windows 8 Support private clouds
packs for Server 2012 Online Backups
supported
ACS supports
Support for VHDX Windows to go Improved integration
“Dynamic access Support for ReFS
files support with Ops Manager
control”
Support added for Updated self service
Support for SMB 3.0 Client to manage Mac Support for De-
CentOS, Debian and portal for Windows 8
file shares and Linux machines Duplicated Volumes
Ubuntu clients
Distribution points in Improved
Support for Service APM support CMDB support for
the cloud performance for CSV
provider framework SharePoint Windows 8
volumes
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14. SC 2012: Poll Question 1
HOW MANY SYSTEM CENTER PRODUCTS DO YOU CURRENTLY USE
A) 3+
B) 2
C) 1
D) 0
E) What is System Center
15.
16. Server Virtualisation
ISOLATION AND
SCALE AND PERFORMANCE VIRTUAL MACHINE MOBILITY CONTINUOUS SERVICES OPEN AND EXTENSIBLE MULTITENANCY
Larger virtual Simultaneous live Clustering Open, extensible Network Virtualization
machines support migrations ease enhancements switch helps support supports multitenancy
increased workloads management burdens increase availability security and and IP portability
management needs
Hardware offloading Shared-nothing live Dynamic Memory Increased support for Resource Metering
offers better migration enables live increases capacity with Windows PowerShell shows how many
performance and scale migration between no downtime helps increase resources each tenant
clusters automation is using
17. Inbox disaster recovery
Hyper-V Replica
Site A – Primary location Site B – Remote location
Disaster recovery
scenarios:
• Planned, unplanned, and
test failover
• Preconfiguration for IP
settings for
primary/remote location
Benefits
• Ships as a component of Windows Server 2012 with no additional installation required
• Host-based replication operates at the virtual machine level and is application agnostic
• Storage agnostic—works with any combination of SAN, DirectAccess server, or Server Message Block 3.0 (SMB 3.0)
• Works with both clustered and non-clustered environments
18. ALWAYS ON, IMPROVED PERFORMANCE AND MORE CHOICE
ENTERPRISE-CLASS FEATURES ON LESS EXPENSIVE HARDWARE
ALWAYS UP SERVICES THROUGH INDUSTRY INNOVATION
Application storage support Offloaded Data Transfers Virtual Fibre Channel
Storage Spaces
through SMB 3.0 (ODX) for Hyper-V
Server Message Block (SMB)
Data Deduplication Windows Cluster in a Box Windows Storage Server
Direct
CONTINUOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY SIMPLIFIED MANAGEABILITY
File system enhancements SMB Transparent Failover Online backup Management options
Cluster-Aware High availability with iSCSI and Unified storage
SMB Multichannel
Updating (CAU) NFS management
19. Built on NTFS File format (No ReFS support yet!)
Supports Bitlocker , Branch Cache , DFS-R
Data Protection Manager SP1 supports backing up of De-Dupe Volumes
Typical savings 40 – 80% depending on data types
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20. EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT RICH USER EXPERIENCE
Easy deployment Unified administration Streamlined RemoteFX for wide Graphics processing
automates deploying uses a single, integrated management helps IT area network (WAN) unit (GPU) support for
and configuring server console for management manage pooled and dynamically detects both physical and
roles personal virtual machines network conditions and software GPUs
tunes experience
BEST VALUE FOR VDI
USB redirection Seamless experience
enables access to supports multitouch,
User Profile Disk Fair Share dynamically Multiple storage locally attached devices new Windows
maintains user distributes bandwidth, options support direct- in remote desktops Experience, and Start
personalization in pooled CPU, and disk use attached, network- menu integration
deployments attached, or storage area
network (SAN) storage
of virtual machines
21. RemoteFX over LAN or WAN
RemoteFX delivers a consistently rich
user experience to users over LAN or WAN
(regardless of deployment model)
Hardware and software GPUs
Rich multimedia
Corporate LAN USB redirection
Internet or WAN Multitouch
WAN acceleration
Single sign-on
22. Manageability
STANDARDS-BASED MANAGEMENT MULTISERVER ECOSYSTEM AND
MANAGEMENT EXTENSIBILITY
Windows Management Framework Server Manager Cross platform
provides a common platform for building enables a capabilities
automation and integration incorporating PowerShell, WS- multiserver enable
Management and WMI management automation across
experience that the datacenter
builds on the
ROBUST AUTOMATION standardized
approach to
Standardized
management and
interfaces and
Windows PowerShell 3.0 robust automation
tools extend the
provides more features to allow more activities capabilities
interoperability
to be automated across the server ecosystem with DevOps
23. Windows PowerShell 3.0
Key features
Broader coverage Greater resiliency
• Rich management through more than 2300 • Robust session connectivity
cmdlets • Disconnected sessions
• Windows PowerShell Web Access • Session configuration files
• Job scheduling
• Windows PowerShell Workflow
More intuitive
• Integrated Scripting Environment 3.0:
IntelliSense | Code Snippets
• Syntax simplification Higher performance
• Cmdlet discovery and module • On-the-fly compilation—up to six times faster
autoloading • Performance improvements
• Updatable help
• Script-sharing
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25. 2012 Private Cloud
Server 2012 and System Center 2012
Self Service Portals
Service Manager
Incident , and Configuration
Problem Change Management Management Data
Management Warehouse
Orchestrator
Operations Manager Virtual Machine Manager
Windows Server 2012
Hardware Platform
26. Infrastructure as a service on
premise
OData web Service
Multi tenancy
Chargeback for services
Windows Azure for windows server
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28. SC 2012: Poll Question 2
WHICH AREA OF SERVER 2012 MOST INTERESTS YOU
A) Virtualisation
B) Storage Enhancements
C) Windows Azure Services
D) Automation
E) Improve Manageability
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30. Summary
System Center 2012 allows you a single management suite to control your
data center
System Center and Server 2012 underpins a private/public cloud strategy
Server 2012 is a huge leap forward
System Center and Server 2012 will save you money!