1. SINGAPORE
PLATFORM, ADVANCED
Kwan Thean Keong (MVP SCOM)
Senior Consultant, Infront Consulting
Automating
Your
Infrastructure:
System
Center
Orchestrator
2012 Technical
Overview

2. Objectives
• Challenges in Managing Data Center
• Gain an insight into the new capabilities and benefits that
System Center Orchestrator will bring
Key Takeaways
• Orchestrator is part of the System Center Suite
• Orchestrator is all about Integration, Orchestration and
Automation

3. Datacenter Management Can Be Expensive
Monitoring Application
Operator Configuration
Admin
Storage Network
Admin Admin
Windows
Dynamic Virt
Server / Virt
Management Admin

4. Automation with System Center
The newest member of the
Microsoft System Center Suite;
providing automation,
orchestration, and integration
for IT management tools
throughout the data center.

5. What Does Orchestrator Do?
Provides IT Process Automation (ITPA), also known as Run Book Automation (RBA), which is the
ability to orchestrate and integrate IT management tools through workflows.
 Helps meet strategic IT goals
through improving service delivery Data Configuration
Management
Protection &
(Physical &
Recovery
 Replaces manual, resource-
Virtual)
intensive, and error-prone activities
Server End-To-End
 Typically crosses multiple IT Compliance Monitoring
components, disciplines, and silos

6. RemedyManager
Service Action Request System
.
OpenView Operations

7. Automating Service Recovery
Automatically Notify
Check for Service
Remediate Failed Administrators on
Failures
Components the Remediation

8. DEMO
Automated Service Recovery

9. Architecture
Workflow
Designer Action Server
Management
Service 11
Operator’s
Console
GUI Data Store Action Servers
(Design, manage, report) (Store process logic) (Run processes)

10. Orchestrator Concepts
• Activities
– Intelligent tasks that perform defined actions
• Integration Packs
– The way Opalis integrates to and executes activities against other
systems and solutions
• Databus
– The mechanism Opalis uses to publish and consume information
between
activities as the runbook executes
• Runbooks
– System level workflows that execute a series of linked activities to
complete
a defined set of actions

11. Runbook Designer

12. Get Clone Clone Add Storage Create Protect
Requests VMs To Each Advertisement VMs
Request VM
VM VM
VM
VM … VM ID VM Name
VM ID VMVM
Name … Disk ID … Job … Protection …
ID Size
Size Dis
Dis
Dis Name ID Group
kk
k VM233
VM233
233113
233113 VM233 … 33434 … LargeVMs …
CR345 Large
Large 8GB
8GB
8GB … VM234
VM234
233114 VM234 … 6655 …
3 233114 VM235 33435 … SmallVMs …
Small 1GB
1GB VM235
CR346 Small 1GB … 233115 VM235 … 6657 …
4GB 233115 VM236 33436 … SmallVMs …
0 Small 4GB VM236
233116 VM236 … 6659 …
233116 33437 … MedVMs …
CR375 Med 5GB
Small 5GB
4GB …
0 6670 …
CR276 Med 5GB …
2

13. DEMO
Orchestrator Console Walkthrough

14. Data Center Automation Use Cases
 Virtual Life Cycle Management  Identity Management
 User & Service Provisioning  Infrastructure Security Management
 Closed Loop Compliance  ITIL Facilitation
 Data Refresh/Publication
 Infrastructure Remediation
 RBA Automation

15. Automate Application Recovery
Monitor Application Change Recover
for Failures Management Application

16. DEMO
System Center Integration:
Automate Application Recovery

17. Automating Across Datacenter IT Silos
Monitor
Event Mgmt for request
Initiate Update Close
Response
Incident
Service Desk Change CMDB Request
Application Service Management
Create
Asset/CMDB Deployment
VM Lifecycle Management
Change & Compliance
Clone Associate
Configuration VM Server to
Service
Provisioning
Virtual
Security
Create Connect
Storage Disk Disk to VM
Create
Server Server
Join
Network Network

18. SCREENSHOTS DEMO
Automated VM Provisioning

19. ORCHESTRATOR USE CASE IN PRIVATE
CLOUDS

20. ORCHESTRATOR USE CASE IN PRIVATE
CLOUDS

21. ORCHESTRATOR USE CASE IN PRIVATE
CLOUDS

22. ORCHESTRATOR USE CASE IN PRIVATE
CLOUDS

23. ORCHESTRATOR USE CASE IN PRIVATE
CLOUDS

24. ORCHESTRATOR USE CASE IN PRIVATE
CLOUDS

25. ORCHESTRATOR USE CASE IN PRIVATE
CLOUDS

26. Integrating Different Management
Systems
BladeLogic Operations Manager HP iLO and OA
BMC Atrium CMDB HP OpenView Operations (Windows)
BMC Remedy AR System HP Service Manager
BMC Event Manager HP Asset Manager
BMC Patrol HP Network Node Manager
CA Spectrum HP OpenView Operations (Unix - HPUX)
CA Unicenter Service Desk HP OpenView Operations (Unix - Solaris)
CA Autosys HP OpenView Service Desk
CA eHealth IBM Tivoli Netcool Omnibus
CA Unicenter NSM IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console
EMC Smarts InCharge IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
VMware vSphere UNIX
Active Directory Veritas NetBackup
FTP

27. Automate Patch Management
Check Patch
Compliance
Restart Change
Systems Management
Patch Set
Affected Maintenance
Systems Window

28. DEMO
System Center Integration:
Automate Patch Management

29. Available Now Coming Soon
Beta
Beta2
Beta
Beta
RC
GA

30. Useful Links
http://msft.it/opalisresources
http://msft.it/opalis
http://msft.it/opalisblog
http://msft.it/opalistechnet
http://msft.it/CharlesJoy
http://msft.it/adamhall
http://opalis.codeplex.com

31. Coming Soon
The Launching of
System Center User Group
(Singapore)
GET AN INVITE !!!
Join the SCUG group in Facebook Or
Email: SCUG-SG@live.com

32. That’s It Folks!
Thank You For Your Time
Hope You Enjoyed It !