Slides from the Advanced Technology Days 12 and a session about the new features in System Center 2016 suite.

1. Advanced
Technology Day
16. i 17. studenog 2016., Hypo Centar

2. I novi System Center je tu...
što je točno novo?
Tomica Kaniški
VIPnet d.o.o.
http://blog.kaniski.eu/

4. 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
System Center 2016
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

5. Azure, AWS, other hoster
Microsoft
Operations
Management
Suite
Datacenter
WINDOWS
HYPER-V
WINDOWS
VMware WINDOWS
What it does?
System
Center 2016
Manage heterogeneous
infrastructure and
workloads
Monitor cloud
resources &
services
Attach for analytics &
supplementary
services

6. Areas of Investment
PS-based Automation
Rapid innovation for continuous value
Full SDDC support
Efficient data protection
Improved Service Management
Hybrid cloud operations management

7. 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 
Nano Server 
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) (Nano, S2D, SDN, Roles…)
Storage Network
SC2016 CM 
Automate (SCO/SMA)
SC2016 DPM 

8. Linux/Unix support

9. VMware support
HYPER-V
WINDOWS 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

10. 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

11. VMM & Software-Defined Data Center
{ Compute
Storage
Networking
Lifecycle mgmt. of Nano Server-based
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
Assurance
Provision and manage host guardian
service and shielded VMs

12. VMM & Nano Server
• Nano Server
‐ New minimal-footprint installation option in WS2016
‐ Better resource utilization
‐ Faster reboots
‐ Fewer updates
• Bare metal to Nano Server
‐ Compute clusters
‐ Storage clusters
 (hyper-converged or disaggregated)

13. VMM & Cluster Rolling Upgrade
Seamless
Zero downtime for hosted VMs
Effortless
VMM orchestrates the process
Safe
Maintain backup SLA using DPM

14. VMM & Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
• 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
Storage Pool
Storage Space Virtual Disks
Virtual Machines
Cluster Shared Volumes
Software Storage Bus

15. VMM & Shielded VMs
• 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
Shielded VM
Admin
No access w/o
credentials
No access to
VM data

16. VMM & SDN
Southbound API
Northbound API
Switch
Firewall
NATGateway
SLB Hyper-V &
vSwitches
Host interfaces
Physical
Cloud
ManagementControlPlaneDataPlane
VMs,
HNV
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

17. DEMO
System Center 2016: Virtual Machine Manager

18. VMM (short)
 Cluster rolling
upgrade
 Manage Nano
 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

19. 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

20. OM & Nano Server
• Nano Server compatible SCOM agent
• Agent installation experience is at par with full agent installation
• Supported workloads - DNS, IIS, Failover Cluster, and Base OS
(more to come…)
• MPs of Nano compliant workloads is updated, to use
PowerShell instead of VB Script/JScript

21. 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

22. OM & Storage Monitoring (2)
• S2D – view of health and performance that is actionable and easy to understand
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fileservershare
CSV CSV CSV CSV CSV

23. OM & Network Monitoring
Monitoring support for
SNMP enabled devices
Load & walk SNMP MIB
files to gather SNMP OID
Generate MP and explore
monitoring capabilities
Add components, rules
and monitors

24. OM & SDN/VNF
Network Controller
cluster nodes
Gateways and Gateway
Pools
Load Balancers Hosts, network interfaces
and virtual networks

25. 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

26. OM & MP Discoverability
1. Automatically suggests unmonitored workloads
2. Identifies machines containing these workloads
3. Notifies about updates to MPs

27. OM & (HTML5) web console
No Silverlight
dependencies
Access Web Console
from different browsers
Faster web console
HTML5-based dashboard
views

28. DEMO
System Center 2016: Operations Manager

29. 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.
 Nano Server and
workload monitoring
 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

30. SC2016
DPM
App Consistent
Hyper-V VMs
Azure Backup Recovery
Services Vault
Azure
Hyper-V VMware
VMware VMs
File ServerSharePointExchangeSQL
Server
DPM & the backup story

31. 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

32. SCO, SMA & SM

33. 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 and
consumption of
IT services
Deploy cloud services
and process
automatically

34. System Center 2016
Workload & App Monitoring
- Azure, 0365, Exchange, SQL,
VMM
- LAMP Stack Monitoring
- Application Perf. Monitoring
Infrastructure Monitoring
- Nano Server, 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
- Nano Server management
- Storage Spaces Direct management
- Synchronous Replication using
Storage Replica
- Storage QoS policy management

35. Takeaways
• 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 with Update Rollup 1!
‐ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3190609

36. Resources
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/