Microsoft OMS & Operations ManagerMortal Enemies, Casual Acquaintances, Best Friends, or Inbred Cousins?

Cameron Fuller

Solution Director - Launch

Catapult Systems

Dieter Wijckmans

Managing Consultant

Coretech Benelux

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3 Year Microsoft MVP

15 years in IT

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10 Year Microsoft MVP, Veeam Vanguard

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Agenda

Introduction to OMS and OpsMgr

What is their relationship?

What does this mean to Sysctr customers?

What do we get in System Center 2016?

Q&A

Introduction to OMS & OpsMgr“start pushing buttons”

Introducing OMS & OpsMgr

Realistically we are focusing on the Log analytics pieces of OMS not all of OMS. Remember OMS covers:

[If you don’t know what Operations Manager is by now you might want to read email until you stop hearing us drone on until you hear some level of applause indicating

that our session has completed .]

The Microsoft Operations Management Suite

• Cloud based

• Excellent for data visualization: “Don’t hate it just

because it’s pretty”

• Provides pre-built solutions to add features not

requiring configuring or any significant tuning

• Connects into existing OpsMgr environments or

standalone systems (Windows & Linux!)

• Potential replacement for ACS, great logging tool for

just about anything!

Highlights/Strengths:

The Microsoft Operations Management Suite

Key insights on OMS:• OMS is currently more analyzing than monitoring since it is

lacking alerting, reporting, authoring, MP ecosystem.

• OMS is still NOT OpsMgr in the Cloud

• There’s still a lot you need to be able to do with OMS that you can’t do without OM

• OMS Conclusions:• Learn OMS and use it together with OpsMgr

• OpsMgr Vendors – integrate with OMS

Relationship between OMS & OpsMgr“It’s complicated”

Mortal Enemies?

Cloud bad, on-prem good!

We know OM and it works, why go to OMS?

OMS is to blame for why we don’t have <insert missing feature here> in OM

Casual Acquaintances?

Do these solutions really even know each other?• Different user experiences

• Different functionality

• OMS uses rules, OpsMgr uses rules & monitors

How do I …• Monitor a server and it’s KPI’s in OMS?

• Perform synthetic transactions? Make DA’s?

DemoDistributed Applications: OM & OMS

Inbred Cousins?

They use the same agent

Weird name synergies, who remembers what we used to call Operations Manager?

What is this, we went from MOM to MOMs? New & improved = plural?

They both use management packs but not quite the same way – yes for rules, no for monitors, no for views/dashboards

AD MP != AD Solution which uses an MP…

DemoMP breakdown – how it works behind the scenes

Best Friends?

OM is what OMS has been missing: • Faster incredibly large-scale data warehouse

including security logs• Next generation visualizations with pre-built

and pre-tuned solutions• HTML5 and mobile access – all platforms• Multi-homing• Platform and solutions evolving daily!

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt691518.aspx

Summary? OM & OMS = Better Together

DemoSQL from two different angles

What does OMS mean to System Center customers?“Belgian Think pose”

Where is System Center? There is lots of this out there

Microsoft is pushing towards the Cloud

Little word on what’s coming in System Center

Leading to Questions:• Is System Center strategic?• Is System Center relevant in

the Cloud?• Are we throwing our money

away on System Center?

Let’s get some facts out on the table

System Center 2016 is expected to release this year (most likely early September) with Windows Server 2016

Configuration Manager – already released

New SC versions at Technical Preview 5:• Operations Manager

• Virtual Machine Manager

• Service Manager

• Data Protection Manager

• Orchestrator & SMA

• Service Provider Foundation

A few more facts to add to the list

TP5 is just released, RC expected in probably 3 months, GA before Ignite?

New features being added through Update Rollups

Active development is occurring & there is a product team for each of the SC TP’s

Cloud investments coming on-prem with Azure Stack

So why aren’t we hearing this from Microsoft?• Cloud & Mobile First: Sales compensation towards those initiatives

• It’s not released yet

What do we get in System Center 2016?

Operations Manager 2016

Plus what we will find in TP5 and beyond!

See Bob’s and Dieter ’s session: “SCOM 2016: Back to the Future”

New MPs!

Extensible Network

Monitoring

Scheduled

Maintenance ModeNano Monitoring

UI Performance

Enhancements

Unix/Linux agent

enhancements

Azure Office 365 MySQL

Apache

Management Pack

Recommendations

MP Catalog

Improvements

And more!

Service Manager 2016

New portal! No more Silverlight!

Support for presence awareness and IM with Lync 2013 & Skype for Business

Performance Enhancements

Write collision avoidance to help deal with conflicting changes

TP5+ enhancements under NDA

Data Protection Manager 2016

Protect mixed mode clusters

New form of change tracking to replace VSS snapshot-based backups - Resilient Change

Tracking (RCT)

Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) support

Virtual TPM support for protection of Shielded VMs

TP5+ enhancements under NDA

SMA 2016

Support for PowerShell 5.0

PowerShell ISE add-on

Native PowerShell script support

Designate a runbook worker

Caching of Runbooks for more predictable execution

TP5+ enhancements under NDA

Virtual Machine Manager 2016

Plus what we will find in TP5 and beyond!

Mixed cluster support

& rolling upgrades

Hot add/remove

network adapters

Management for

Guarded hosts

Management for

Shielded VM’s

Storage Tiers: storage

spaces direct

Simpler Logical

Switch creation

VM Static Memory

while running

VM Checkpoint

supportAnd more!

Storage Tiers: storage

spaces

Enhanced storage

QoS

How to prepare yourself?

Get current on your Update Rollups

For Operations Manager – update management packs, healthy check existing environment

Connect Operations Manager to OMS: Operations Manager is better together with OMS

Join the technical previews to test out the new functionality in System Center & Windows

Server 2016

Investigate workloads to move to the Cloud

Questions & Answers

Here’s your chance to break out those questions you have been waiting to ask!

[Or alternatively to play stump-the-chump with the American and the German… Just kidding Dieter ]

And Then …