This document provides an overview of the System Center 2012 product line. It begins with an agenda for a presentation and hands-on lab on System Center Configuration Manager 2012. Next, it discusses the company providing the presentation and their story and solutions. The remainder of the document summarizes the key components of System Center 2012, including System Center Operations Manager, Data Protection Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Service Manager, and Orchestrator. It also covers private cloud capabilities with System Center and the history and new features of System Center Configuration Manager. Finally, it discusses the two licensing editions for System Center 2012.

1. System Center 2012
Pēteris Ervalds, Senior Infrastructure Solutions Consultant
26.09.2012.

2. Agenda
• 10:00-10:45 System Center 2012 Presentation
• 10:45-11:00 Coffee break
• 11:00-14:00 System Center Configuration Manager
2012 Hands-on-Lab
Questions and Answers
* 15:00 Lunch

3. Our story
We began in
as a software licensing
and sales company

4. Our story
We’ve been expanding
rapidly across
Eastern Europe
Lithuania Ukraine Belarus Georgia

5. Our solutions
Planning, Collaboration, Security solutions
implementation messaging and and audits
and maintenance information
of IT infrastructure management
solutions
Custom and Biometric solutions Software licensing
product based
development
and testing

6. System Center 2012

7. System Center Operations Manager
• Used for monitoring • Collects and summarizes
• Can monitor applications from audit events
inside through management • Can monitor and analize .NET
packs (Microsoft and 3rd applications
party) • Monitors Unix, Linux servers
• Monitors network devices • Monitors workstations

8. System Center Data Protection
Manager
• Backup solution • Can backup workstation
• Supports Windows Server data
environments • Supports Exchange,
• Can be used for disaster SharePoint, Hyper-V, SQL
recovery Server environments

9. System Center Virtual Machine
Manager
• Virtual environment management solution
• Supports Hyper-V, VMWare ESX, Citrix XenServer hosts
• Physical-to-Virtual conversion
• Self-Service portal;
• Virtual Machine templates;
Manage with SCVMM 2012

10. System Center Service Manager
• Platform to organize processes
• Configuration Management
according to industry best
Database
practises (ITIL and MOF)
• Service catalogue
• Incident Management
• Integration with Active Directory,
• Problem Management
Operations Manager, Configuration
• Change Management Manager, Orchestrator

11. System Center Orchestrator
• Automates processes/activities
• Integrates with all other System Center 2012 products
• Has integration packs for 3rd party solutions (CA Service
Desk, IBM Tivoli, HP Operations, VMWare vSphere, and
others)

12. Private Cloud with System Center
• A private cloud is a new model for IT delivery. It
transforms datacenter resources to enable the key
benefits of cloud computing
• Characteristics of private cloud:
• Pooled resources
• Self-Service
• Elastic
• Usage-based

13. System Center Configuration Manager
history
Name, version Year
SMS 1.0 1994
SMS 2.0 1999
SMS 2003 2003
SMS 2003 R2 2006
SCCM 2007 2007
SCCM 2007 R2 2008
SCCM 2007 R3 2010
SCCM 2012 2012
SMS – Systems Management Server
SCCM – System Center Configuration Manager

14. System Center Configuration Manager
features

15. What’s New SCCM 2012 SP1
• Deployment and management of Windows 8 and
Windows Server 2012
• Distribution point for Windows Azure to help reduce
infrastructure costs
• Automation of administrative tasks through PowerShell
support
• Management of Mac OS X clients and Linux and UNIX
servers
• To be released in early 2013

16. System Center 2012 Licensing
Two System Center 2012
Editions • Comprehensive private cloud management
solution
Two Editions • Differentiated on virtualization
• Available exclusively with Software
Assurance
2 Processors, Unlimited OSEs
• Customers can manage any workload with
High Density Virtualization
All The
both editions
Features
• Management software and SQL Runtime
All The Time
included
2 Processors, OSEs
Processor-
• Two-processor license targets most common
Low Density or No based
hardware configuration
Virtualization Licensing

17. Coffee break 