kd2017_system center in the "cloud first" era

Tomica Kaniški

tomica@kaniski.eu | https://blog.kaniski.eu/

SYSTEM CENTER

IN THE „CLOUD FIRST” ERA

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SYSTEM CENTER 2016

Capabilities

Protect

Backup private clouds, physical machines, clients, and server applications

Automate

Automate management tasks using graphical and scripting tools

Self-service

IT process management and self-service

Monitor

Monitor physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure and workloads in real-time

Provision

Provision fabric, deploy and manage VMs, and deploy multi-tier apps

VMM OM SCO/SMA DPM SM

Configure

Configure, patch and update clients & servers

CM

WHAT IT DOES?

Azure, AWS, other hoster

MicrosoftOperations Management Suite

Datacenter

WINDOWSHYPER-V

WINDOWS

VMware WINDOWS

System

Center 2016

Manage heterogeneous

infrastructure and

workloads

Monitor cloud

resources &

services

Attach for analytics &

supplementary

services

AREAS OF INVESTMENT

PS-based Automation Rapid innovation for continuous value

Full SDDC support

Efficient data protection

Improved Service Management

Hybrid cloud operations management

Credential Guard

Defender

Host Guardian

Shielded VM

SDN Network Controller

Software Load Balancer

Distributed Firewall

Virtual network

Gateway

SDN QoS

RDMA

Switch-Embedded

Teaming

Storage-Spaces Direct

Synchronous replication

Storage QoS

Online storage resize

Rolling upgrades for zero downtime

Mixed OS Mode cluster

High performance live migration

Hot add/remove Fixed

Memory and NIC

VM resiliency

Containers *

WINDOWS SERVER 2016 AND SYSTEM

CENTER 2016

Compute Security

SC2016 VMM

Monitor (SC2016 OM) (S2D, SDN, Roles…)

Storage Network

SC2016 CM

Automate (SCO/SMA)

SC2016 DPM

LINUX/UNIX SUPPORT

VMWARE SUPPORT

HYPER-VWINDOWS VMware WINDOWS

OM (with partner MPs)

Monitor ESX hosts, clusters & resource pools

Monitor VMs, virtual appliances

Monitor networks, distribution switches, & port groups

DPM

Backup through vCenter

Detect & backup VMs from NFS, SAN, DAS

Recover files or folders from Windows VM

Detect & protect new VMs automatically

VMM

Manage VMware VMs

V2V conversion from VMware to Hyper-V

SCO

VMware integration pack

AZURE, AWS SUPORT

Notification Hubs

Operational Insights

Redis Cache

Scheduler

Search

Service Bus

SQL Azure

Storage Accounts

Traffic Manager

Virtual Machines

Websites

Application Insights

Automation

Backup

BizTalk

Cloud Service (web and worker roles)

Data Factory

DocumentDB

Logic App

Media Services

Mobile Services

Virtual Networks

EC2 instances

EBS volumes

ELB load balancers

Auto Scaling and Availability Zones

Elastic Beanstalk applications

CloudFormation stacks

CloudWatch Alarms

CloudWatch Custom Metrics

Add Microsoft Azure subscriptions to VMM and perform basic actions on Azure instances

VMM & SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER

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Compute

Storage

Networking

Lifecycle mgmt. of hosts and VMs, Rolling cluster OS upgrades

Manage storage clusters with Storage Spaces Direct, Quality of service for VM storage, Storage replica

Centrally configure and manage SDN NC, physical and virtual network devices such as routers, switches, gateways, SLB and NSG

AssuranceProvision and manage host guardian service and shielded VMs

VMM & CLUSTER ROLLING UPGRADE

Seamless

Zero downtime for hosted VMs

Effortless

VMM orchestrates the process

Safe

Maintain backup SLA using DPM

• industry-standard servers with local storage

• create storage pools on this storage

• place VM workloads on top of it

• steps:– use VMM to create cluster

– check the S2D checkbox

– a hyper-converged cluster with

a global pool and up to two tiers

(capacity and performance)

is provisioned– create CSV for use as VM storage

VMM & STORAGE SPACES DIRECT (S2D)

Storage Pool

Storage Space Virtual Disks

Virtual Machines

Cluster Shared Volumes

Software Storage Bus

• VMs whose data, at rest or in

transit, can’t be snooped by

malware or malicious fabric

admins

• VMM can create new shielded

VMs or shield existing

unshielded VMs

VMM & SHIELDED VMS

Shielded VM

Admin

No access w/o credentials

No access to VM data

VMM & SDN

Southbound API

Northbound API

Switch

Firewall

NATGateway

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Physical

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Virtual

VMMTenants

WAP/Custom portal

Provision NC

Provision SLB, NAT, GW, NSG (Port ACL), QoS

Provision SET, RDMA, NIC team

Router

Provision VNets, NAT, S2S

Admin

VMM (SHORT)

Cluster rolling

upgrade

Production

checkpoints

Modify running

VMs

Intelligent

placement & live

migration of VM,

storage

Support for 25K

VMs on 1K hosts

Storage Spaces

Direct (S2D)

Storage replica

Storage QoS

SDN

management –

NC, SLB, Port

ACL for NSG

Switch

Embedded

Teaming

SDN QoS

virtual network

provisioning

Template-

based multi-tier

app

deployment

Drag-and-drop

template

authoring

Scale-in and

scale-out

Custom scripts

on VM and app

deployment

Creation of

guarded hosts

Create and

manage

Shielded VMs

OM & SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER

{Insights Alerts

Fabric

Storage

Networking

OS and workloads

Application & Services

Audit resource health, state, metrics and usage of virtualization hosts and VMs

Monitor storage subsystem, volumes and file shares with actionable alerts

Discover network paths, and monitor health of network devices and ports

Track availability, config, perf., and security of OS and workloads

Track health, metrics and usage of applications and services

OM & STORAGE MONITORING (1)

System Center 2016 Operations Manager

PowerShell

Actions

Windows Server

Health Service

Storage System

Discovery

User Notifications Dashboards

Focus on relevant objects (Cluster/Storage subsystem, volumes and file shares)

No dependency on VMM Management Pack

New visualizations

• S2D – view of health and performance that is actionable

and easy to understand

OM & STORAGE MONITORING (2)

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OM & NETWORK MONITORING

Monitoring support for

SNMP enabled devicesLoad & walk SNMP MIB

files to gather SNMP OID

Generate MP and explore

monitoring capabilities

Add components, rules

and monitors

OM & SDN/VNF

Network Controller

cluster nodes

Gateways and Gateway

Pools

Load Balancers Hosts, network interfaces

and virtual networks

OM & OPERATIONAL SIMPLICITY

Monitoring

Experience

• MP discoverability

• Data-driven alert management (alert noise reduction)

• Schedule maintenance mode

• In-place upgrade

Improved Fundamentals

• Scale improvements for X-Plat

• Performance improvements

• Improved UI responsiveness

• Removing Silverlight dependencies

OM & MP DISCOVERABILITY

1. Automatically suggests unmonitored workloads

2. Identifies machines containing these workloads

3. Notifies about updates to MPs

OM & (HTML5) WEB CONSOLE

No Silverlight

dependencies

Access Web Console

from different browsers

Faster web console

HTML5-based dashboard

views

OM (SHORT)

OMS attach

including OM

management

groups

Log analytics and

correlation of alerts

Audit collection

services

Enhanced data

visualization

New MPs for Azure,

O365, SQL,

Exchange, Server OS,

DHCP, DNS, NLB, IIS,

etc.

LAMP stack

monitoring

Storage monitoring

CPS monitoring

Extensible network

device monitoring

Network

performance

monitoring with

OMS integration

Scheduled

maintenance mode

MP updates and

recommendations

VSAE for VS 2015

In-place upgrade

Ready discoverability

of partner solutions

and MPs

HTML5 web console

Monitor diverse environments

Integrated network monitoring

Operational simplicity

SC 2

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App Consistent

Hyper-V VMs

Azure Backup Recovery Services Vault

Azure

Hyper-V VMwareVMware VMs

File ServerSharePointExchangeSQL Server

DPM & THE BACKUP STORY

SC 2016 DPM

• ReFS Cloning

• Deduplication

• VHDX

• Workload-Volume Affinity

Reduced TCO

WS 2016

Private Cloud

• 3X Faster Backups

• 50% storage savings

• 2X scale

• Reduced storage costs

Modern DPM Storage• Resilient VM backups

with RCT

• Backup VMs stored on S2D

• Rolling Cluster Upgrade – Don’t miss backup SLA

DPM & NEWS

SCO, SMA & SM

SM & AUTOMATION

PowerShell ISE plugin for authoring

Support for PowerShell scripts in

SMA

Windows Management Framework

5.0 support

HTML Self Service Portal

Significant Performance

Improvements

Service catalog, including support

for Lync 2013 & Skype for Business

Integrate people, process, and knowledge

Efficient resource utilization and SLA tracking

Easy publishing andconsumption of IT services

Deploy cloud services and process automatically

System Center 2016

Workload & App Monitoring- Azure, 0365, Exchange, SQL,

VMM- LAMP Stack Monitoring- Application Perf. Monitoring

Infrastructure Monitoring- Windows Storage (SMI-S

support), Container- Microsoft Azure Stack (MAS)- Cloud Platform System (CPS)- Networking performance (L2-L3)- Extensible network device

monitoring (without certification)

SCOM Infrastructure- In-place upgrade from 2012 R2- MP Discoverability, Update and

Recommendation- Data-driven alert management- Scheduled Maintenance Mode- Performance Updates- VSAE support on VS 2015- Enhanced Data Visualization- Improve UI Responsiveness- Scale improvements X-Plat

SCOM Attached Services- Operations Management Suite- Custom Log Correlation- SCOM Health Assessment

Monitor (OM)

Reduced TCO w/ Modern DPM storage

Improved Private Cloud Protection - Seamless backup of Shielded VMs,

VMs stored on Storage spaces direct

- Backup SLA with rolling cluster

upgrade

- VMware VM Backup

Flexible- No reboot of production server after

upgrade

- Seamless migration of backups to

Modern DPM Storage

- VMware VM Backup

Protect (DPM)

Automate (SCO/SMA)

- SCO Migration Tool Kits

- PowerShell Script support in SMA

- PowerShell ISE plugins for SMA

Self-Service (SM)

- Improved usability and perf

- HTML5 self-service portal

- CM and AD connector perf

improvements

- Support for SQL 2014 SP1 and

SQL 2016

- Integration with OMS

Configure (CM)

Windows 10 support- Native support for OS deployment

as well as upgrade- Management and monitoring of

Windows 10 servicing rings- Policy and application management - ConfigMgr 2012/R2 and ConfigMgr

2007 compatibility

Update/upgrade improvements- New in-console Updates and

Servicing model- In-place upgrade from 2012 SP1

and 2012 R2

Manage Windows 10 devices via MDM with on-premises infrastructure - Updates via Intune- MDM enrollment with Azure AD- Bulk enrollment support- Customer data not stored in cloud

Infrastructure - Unified end user portal - Increased scale - Extend peer caching for WinPE- Content distribution improvements- Cluster aware settings

Provision (VMM)

Ease of Use and Efficiency- Rolling cluster upgrades- Streamlined compute and storage

cluster creation- Simplified logical switch creation

and deployment- Extending VM Role to support

dedicated disk during deployment- Re-associate orphaned VM back

to its service or role

Security and Infrastructure- Shielded VM management- Guarded host management- Improved storage and networking

resiliency

Expanded Fabric Management- SDN deployment and management- Port ACL management- Switch Embedded teaming- Consistent device naming for guests- Managing mixed OS clusters- Storage Spaces Direct management- Synchronous Replication using

Storage Replica- Storage QoS policy management

• SC 2016 is a significant release that helps you readily

leverage Windows Server 2016 for SDDC and simplified

datacenter management

• System Center and OMS will work together to deliver

enhanced management capabilities and experiences

• System Center is not going anywhere – it’s here to

stay.

• don’t forget to patch your deployments!– https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4020906/update-rollup-3-for-system-center-2016

TAKEAWAYS

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Ignite-Content/BRK2159-Take-advantage-of-

new-capabilities-in-System-Center-2016/td-p/10624

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2016/09/26/announcing-the-launch-of-system-

center-2016-and-new-services-for-operations-management-suite/

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Mechanics/Whats-new-with-System-Center-2016

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/system-center

https://technet.microsoft.com/system-center-docs/system-center

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center-docs/get-started/what-s-new-in-system-center

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center-docs/get-started/release-notes

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3190609

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dpm/2016/08/26/four-simple-steps-to-backup-vmware-vms-

using-sc-dpm/

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dpm/2016/11/14/implementing-microsoft-dpm-host-level-

protection-of-vmware-vms/

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dpm/2016/10/19/introducing-dpm-2016-modern-backup-

storage/

RESOURCES

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