Overview of new features in System Center 2012 SP1 and how it can be used to manage on premises and Windows Azure resources.

1. IT Camps

2. Tools

3. Windows Server 2012
Productive Predictable
Your Cloud
Infrastructure Applications
3

4. Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2008 R2
System Center 2012 SP1 Microsoft
Manages Hyper-V Server 2012
Microsoft
Windows Server SQL Server Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
2008 R2
2012 2008 R2
2012

6. Maximum number
Improvement
System Resource Windows Server
factor
2012
Hosts 64 4
Cluster
Virtual machines 8,000 8
Logical processors on hardware 320 5
Host Physical memory 4 TB 4
Virtual processors per host 2,048 4
Virtual processors per virtual
64 16
machine
Virtual
Machine Memory per virtual machine 1 TB 16
Active virtual machines 1,024 2.7
6

7. System Center 2012 System Center 2012 SP1
• Hyper-V 2K8 R2 boot from VHD • Host profiles and configuration management
• Configure physical Hyper-V cluster • Bigger Clusters (16  64 nodes)
• Out of band management • Bigger hosts (64 320 cores, 1TB -> 4 TB)
• Online patch orchestration of Hyper-V • Larger VMs (64 vCPU’s, 1 TB RAM)
• Software Defined Networking • Isolated tenant networks
• IP virtualization
• Manage Switch Extensions
• Logical Switch
• Discovery of arrays , pools , LUNs • SMB3.0 and NAS support
• Classification of storage resources • Live storage migration
• On demand assignment of storage to a • Multiple Live Migrations
service and clusters

8. Hyper-V Network Virtualization
Blue VM Red VM Blue Network Red Network
Virtualization
Physical Physical
Server Network
Server Virtualization Hyper-V Network Virtualization
• Run multiple virtual networks on a
• Run multiple virtual servers
on a physical server physical network
• Each VM has illusion it is running as a
• Each virtual network has illusion it is
physical server running as a physical network
• Realized via Windows Server and VMM

9. …on Host 1 …on Host 2 …on Host 3 …on Host n
Virtual Switch Virtual Switch Virtual Switch Virtual Switch
Extension1 Extension1 Extension1 Extension1
Extension1
Extension2 Extension2 Extension2 Extension2
Extension2
Extension3 Extension3 Extension3 Extension3
Extension3

10. …on Host 1 …on Host 2 …on Host 3 …on Host n
Virtual Switch Virtual Switch Virtual Switch Virtual Switch
Extension1 Extension1 Extension1 Extension1
Extension2 Extension2 Extension2 Extension2
Extension3 Extension3 Extension3 Extension3

12. Windows Server 2012 Cloud

14. Web Test +
Target URL +
Schedule
Web Test
Global
Service
Visual Operations Monitor
Results +
Studio 2012 Manager Intellitrace
Call Web
!
Workitem + App
Results +
Intellitrace
On-Premise Production
Results
Application
1

15. 1

17. Tenant A Tenant B
Tenant A Users Tenant A Admin Tenant B Users Tenant B Admin
Tenant A Self-Service User Roles Tenant A Tenant B Self-Service User Roles Tenant B
VM Networks, Templates, VHDs, Allowed Actions Tenant Admin User Role VM Networks, Templates, VHDs, Allowed Actions Tenant Admin User Role
Tenant A Production Tenant A Dev Tenant A Test Tenant B Production Tenant B Dev Tenant B Test
(Quota) (Quota) (Quota) (Quota) (Quota) (Quota)
Service
Provider SERVICE PROVIDER FOUNDATION SPF Database
REST API
AUTHENTICATION & AUTHORIZATION Stamps
AGGREGATION, TENANT MANAGEMENT, STAMP MANAGEMENT Tenants
RESOURCES, ACTIONS User Roles
ORCHESTRATION & PROCESS
Production Cloud Gold Cloud Dev Cloud Test Cloud European Cloud
Synced User Roles Synced User Roles Synced User Roles
VMM 1 VMM 2 VMM3
1

18. Enterprise Customer
App Controller
Public Cloud
Private Cloud
Service (Windows Azure)
Provider Cloud
1

20. Private
Private Public
Public

26. Move Manage Monitor
App App App Operations
Orchestrator
On-Premise Controller Controller Controller Manager
Azure IP Azure MP
Windows
Azure
2

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