System Center 2012

Pēteris Ervalds, Senior Infrastructure Solutions Consultant 26.09.2012.

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

Our story

We began in

as a software licensing

and sales company

Our story

We’ve been expanding

rapidly across

Eastern Europe

Lithuania Ukraine Belarus Georgia

Our solutions

Planning,

implementation

and maintenance

of IT infrastructure

Collaboration,

messaging and

information

management

solutions

Security solutions

and audits

Custom and

product based

development

and testing

Biometric solutions Software licensing

System Center 2012

System Center Operations Manager

• Used for monitoring

• Can monitor applications from

inside through management

packs (Microsoft and 3rd

party)

• Monitors network devices

• Collects and summarizes

audit events

• Can monitor and analize .NET

applications

• Monitors Unix, Linux servers

• Monitors workstations

System Center Data Protection

Manager

• Backup solution

• Supports Windows Server

environments

• Can be used for disaster

recovery

• Can backup workstation

data

• Supports Exchange,

SharePoint, Hyper-V, SQL

Server environments

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

System Center Service Manager

• Platform to organize processes

according to industry best

practises (ITIL and MOF)

• Incident Management

• Problem Management

• Change Management

• Configuration Management

Database

• Service catalogue

• Integration with Active Directory,

Operations Manager, Configuration

Manager, Orchestrator

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)

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

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

System Center Configuration Manager

features

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

System Center 2012 Licensing

2 Processors, OSEs

2 Processors, Unlimited OSEs

High Density Virtualization

Low Density or No

Virtualization

Two System Center 2012

Editions

Two Editions

All The

Features

All The Time

Processor-

based

Licensing

• Comprehensive private cloud management

solution

• Differentiated on virtualization

• Available exclusively with Software

Assurance

• Customers can manage any workload with

both editions

• Management software and SQL Runtime

included

• Two-processor license targets most common

hardware configuration

Coffee break