This document discusses balancing a datacenter through feng shui principles and IT automation. It recommends (1) gaining visibility into all systems through monitoring tools to understand the environment, (2) managing the people, processes, and technologies through configurations and standardization, and (3) automating manual processes to simplify operations and allow the datacenter to scale efficiently. The key steps are gaining visibility, enabling management, and incorporating automation to maintain balance as the datacenter grows.

2. Balancing your Datacenter
Feng Shui
Raymond Chou
CDM MVP
Regional Managing Principal Consultant
Redynamics Asia | Infront Consulting Group APAC
@exotrinity

3. Feng Shui ( i/ˌfɛŋ ˈʃuːi/;[1] i/fʌŋ ʃweɪ/;[2] pinyin: fēng
shuǐ, pronounced [fɤ́ ŋ ʂwèi] ( listen)) is a Chinese
philosophical system of harmonizing the human existence
with the surrounding environment.

4. Universal Balancing of IT
People
Process
Technology

5. STEP 1: Understanding the Surrounding
What you do not know… WILL HURT YOU
Monitoring and Management is KEY
Don’t become crazy

6. Visibility is Essential
System Center
Operations Manager
provides quick root
point troubleshooting

7. Monitor Entire Datacenters
Management Packs are
available for
monitoring of
Microsoft, non-
Microsoft, devices, etc

8. Monitor Entire Datacenters
Management Packs are
available for
monitoring of
Microsoft, non-
Microsoft, devices, etc

9. Provisioning Infrastructures
HW
profile
OS
profile
App
profile
HW
profile
OS
profile
App
profile
HW
profile
OS
profile
SQL
profile

10. Datacenter service management
Release
management
Change
management
Self-service
Reporting
andinsights
Problem
management
The service management workflow, managed by the CMDB in Service Manager that controls a
process schema that also compliments ITIL methodologies
CMDB
Service Manager
Service Transition Service Transition Continual Service
Improvement
Service Operation Service Operation

11. Process automation simplifies Datacenter Management

12. Automation Concepts

13. Measuring the datacenter as it scales
CMDB
Service Manager
SS Portal
App Controller
SM PortalOrchestrator
Operations
Manager
Development team
Reaching compute capacity, and
requesting resources
Identify clouds with free resources,
and use standardized workflows
and rules for service management

15. Issue and Problem resolution

16. … and behind the scenes

17. Expanding data insights across clouds
CMDB
Service Manager
SS Portal
App Controller
SM PortalOrchestrator
=

18. … and behind the scenes

19. How we get there
Out-of-the-box integration across
System Center stack to link process automation
and systems automation
to standardize delivery.
Standardize service delivery processes
Define the supporting organizational activities
needed to deliver on the request and ensure
traceability and compliance
Service and
request offerings
Define the services that IT will deliver to
its consumers
Specify requests available for each service and
what information will be required to fulfill each
request
Request template
Processes
Self Service Portal
Service Catalog
Service Manager
CMDB
Orchestrator
Runbooks

20. Types of Services
Deploying the self-service offerings

21. Critical Points to Note
Visibility is STEP 1
Automation creates a Balance
Visibility  Management  Automation

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