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System Center 2012 R2 overview

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AgendaSystem Center: Unified management for the Cloud OS

System Center momentum

Customer needs and opportunities

System Center 2012 R2 solution and capability overview

Why choose System Center 2012 R2

Next steps

Appendix What’s new in System Center 2012 R2

Top 10 features

System Center component summary

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Compute

NetworkStorage

Consumerization

of IT

New social and app patterns

Data explosion

Cloud computing

Transformational trends

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The Cloud OSModern platform for the world’s apps

DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT IDENTITY VIRTUALIZATIONDATA

CUSTOMER

SERVICE PROVIDER

WINDOWS AZURE

1CONSISTENTPLATFORM

Transforms the datacenter

Unlocks insightson any data

Empowers people-centric IT

Enables modern apps

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Windows Server

Windows Azure

First-party cloud experience

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Windows Server

Windows Azure

High-performance storage on industry-standard hardware File and storage servicesOffloaded data transferStorage spaces with automatic tiering

Policy-based automation Cluster aware updatesDynamic optimization

Multi-tenant environments with isolationServer CoreHyper-V Network VirtualizationWebsites, VMs & Service Bus

Application elasticityService templates

Software-defined networkingHyper-V Network VirtualizationNetwork QoSCross-premises connectivity

And many others…

Bringing our learnings to your datacenter

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System Center 2012 momentum

“By using System Center 2012 SP1, our developers are far more effective and can get more done. This is improving efficiency and productivity by approximately 40 percent.”

—Ashley Vail, Director of Engineering, India Development Center, Xerox

“We plan on using System Center 2012 to reduce the six hours a week that we normally spend on deploying system upgrades and security updates.”

—Young-Jin An, Manager, Software Business Development, KT Corporation

“By upgrading to System Center 2012 SP1 and deploying Windows Azure Services for Windows Server….VaiSulWeb…can offer new services at scale, and has reduced costs by 50 percent.”

—VaiSulWeb, Italy

“VMWare or Citrix is unfamiliar to most administrators, while the private cloud environment based on the Windows Server and System Center will allow any administrator to control all the IT infrastructures with simple training.”

—Sung-Min Kim, Director of DIT Technical Research Lab, Noroo

“With System Center 2012, we have deeper insight into application performance, which means that we can load-balance cloud resources to deliver maximum performance and avert application failures.”

—Murat Demirkiran, DenizBank, Turkey

“As with Hyper-V, it does appear that System Center is now closing the gap with yet another one-time VMware advantage. Will Microsoft's simplified and less-expensive management capabilities provide it with another big win? I would think so…”

—Paul Thurott, Windows IT Pro

Windows IT Pro magazine

“Microsoft Leaps Ahead Of VMware In Hybrid Cloud Management.”

“Microsoft makes the public and private cloud transition seamless.” —Alan Bourassa, Chief Information Officer, EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffeured Services

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Customer needs and opportunities

Efficient datacenter operations across entire customer base

“Keeping the lights on” mandate reduces agility to address app owners’ needs

Need to offer differentiated services to customers

Complexities due to diverse datacenter infrastructure

Flat or shrinking IT budgets even as business expectations increase

Lower infrastructure costs and OPEX savings from increased operational efficiencies

Support for modern, self-service applications and automation of repeatable tasks

High level of cross-platform interoperability

Customer needs:

Opportunities:

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IT Service Manageme

nt

Unified management for the Cloud OS

Infrastructure

Provisioning

Infrastructure monitoringApplication

perf. Monitoring

Virtual Machine Manager

Operations Manager

App Controller

Service Manager

Service Manager

Orchestrator (incl. SPF)

Configuration ManagerData Protection Manager

Microsoft

On-premises

Service Provider

Multiple tenants / customer

s

Service admin

Service model

Windows Azure Pack

Self-service Automation

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System Center 2012 R2 solution overview

Infrastructure provisioning

Enterprise-class multitenant infrastructure for hybrid environments

System Center capabilities

Application performance monitoring

Deep insight into application health

Automation and self-service

Application owner agility while IT retains control

IT service management

Flexible service delivery

Infrastructure monitoring

Comprehensive monitoring of physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure

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Capability overview

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Extend familiar management to Windows Azure

Single tool for on-premises and cloud provisioning

Infrastructure provisioning

Enterprise-class virtualization management with robust Linux support

Effectively manage virtual environments

at-scale

Simplified provisioning & migration

Reduce infrastructure complexity

Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure

Deliver efficient infrastructure services across customer base

Supports Windows Server scale & performance: • Dynamic VHDX resize • Dynamic Memory

support for Linux• Snapshot running VMFibre-channel SAN connectivity

Manage Windows Server file storage & Storage SpacesAutomated Hyper-V cluster upgrades with VMMService templates & runbooks for System Center componentsEnable protection & recovery across datacenters

Multi-hypervisor clouds Manage virtual networks Automated standards-based TOR switch configurationMulti-tenant edge gateway provisioning Service management automation

System Center 2012 R2 delivers IT demandsEnterprise-class multi-tenant infrastructure for hybrid environments

Migrate workloads to Windows Azure Virtual MachinesWindows Azure Integration Pack

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System Center supports enterprise-class scale and performance System Resource

Maximum numberImprovement

factorWindows 2008 R2

Windows Server 2012 R2

Host

Logical processors on hardware 64 320 5×

Physical memory 1 TB 4 TB 4×

Virtual processors per host 512 2,048 4×

Virtual machine

Virtual processors per virtual machine 4 64 16×

Memory per virtual machine 64 GB 1 TB 16×

Virtual disk capacity 2 TB 64 TB 32x

Active virtual machines 384 1,024 2.7×

ClusterNodes 16 64 4×

Virtual machines 1,000 8,000 8×Manage Windows Server 2012 R2 virtualization scale with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). Each VMM server manages upto 1000 hosts and 25000 VMs.

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Complete virtualization-managementVMM support for automated Hyper-V cluster upgrades without downtime

Snapshot running VM without downtime

Flexible storage provisioning & managementWindows Server file-based storage & Storage Spaces, incl. bare metal file server cluster provisioning

VM connectivity into fibre-channel SAN storage

Robust Linux in-guest support Greater VM density per host with Dynamic Memory support

File-level VM backups, restore full VMs

Enterprise-class management & open source support

Dynamic VHDX resize Grow SCSI virtual disk with no downtime

Workload

Storage Capacity

VHDX

Virtual Machine

Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center

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Simplified infrastructure service delivery

In-box service templates and runbooks for System Center components

Integrate existing investments using web-based interfaces to System Center capabilities

Scale management across multiple System Center instances (or “stamps”)

Extensible service management automation

Tenant-level resource metering for capacity planning and usage analytics

Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure

Tenants User roles Stamps

Service mgmt. automation (PowerShell based)

System Center REST web service APIs, incl. usage metering

Service provider systems (e.g., Billing).

System Center (Management

stamps)

Service provider portal

Service Provider Foundation (SPF)

Tenant admin/users

APIs

Virtual machine manage

r

Virtual machine manage

r

Virtual machine manage

r

Orchestrator Operations manager

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Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure: service management automation Enable efficient infrastructure delivery and operationsWeb-based runbook authoring

Scalable, multitenant-aware automation engine built on PowerShell

Import existing PowerShell scripts and workflows

Integration with existing/ third-party systems

CMDB

Ticketing

Billing

Management Systems

VIRTUAL MACHINE CLOUDS

12

SQL SERVER

9

PLANS

12

WEBSITE CLOUD

12

MYSQL SERVERS

0

NOTIFICATIONS

0

USER ACCOUNTS

4

AUTOMATION

8

ALLITEMS

Add bulk user accounts

Service ticket for failed resourcesNotify users of plan updatesAdd additional SQL capacity

IntegrationWorkflow automation

Web-based authoring

Delivered by System Center 2012 R2 through the Orchestrator component by exposing the above features as web-service APIs along with SPF integration.

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Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure: capacity planning and usage analyticsGranular metering of resource usage

by tenant, including CPU, memory & storage

Enable business/ operational insight with tenant-level analytics

Data warehousing & reporting, incl. allocation, utilization & license compliance views

Integration with Cloud Cruiser cost analytics solution for chargeback

Usage metering and analytics are delivered by System Center 2012 R2 through Orchestrator as SPF web-services APIs, usage data is provided by Operations Manager and VMM. Windows Azure Pack surfaces the reports.

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Multi-tenant cloud infrastructure:virtual networks

Open, extensible and standards-based solution that delivers flexibility, automation and controlAt-scale management of virtual networks on shared physical networks

Provision and configure multi-tenant edge gateway for seamless physical & virtual network connectivity

Enable easy remote access into virtualized service provider network for tenants

OMI-based plug-in for automated TOR switch configuration

Partner ecosystem support

http://contosoweb.red.com14.1.1.100

http://contosoweb.blue.com14.1.1.100

NVGRE

Service provider cloud

Multi-tenant VPN gateway

Site-to-site connectivity

Red company

192.168.0.0/24

192.168.0.0/24

Blue company

Site-to-site connectivity

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On-premises

Windows Azure

Extend familiar System Center to manage Windows Azure Virtual Machines

App Controller

MoveVM management(e.g. start, stop)

Orchestrator(Windows Azure Integration Pack)

App Controller

App Controller

Migrate VM: On-premises to Windows Azure

Migrate VM: Windows Azure to on-premises

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IT demandsSystem Center 2012 R2 delivers

Best-of-breed Windows monitoring, robust cross-platform support

Monitor diverse environments

Network monitoring and cloud infrastructure health

Assure physical, virtual,

and cloud infrastructure health

Best-practice workload configuration

Ensure reliable workload configurations

Cross platform monitoring:• Windows Server• RHEL/SUSE Linux• Oracle Solaris• HP-UX & IBM AIXCross-platform configuration: • Windows Server • Linux/UNIX

VMM-Operations Manager connectorVMware vSphere health with VEEAM Management PackNetwork topology discovery System Center Management Pack for Windows AzureAWS Management Pack

Best practice configuration for Windows Server 2012 with System Center Advisor connector

Comprehensive monitoring of physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure

Infrastructure monitoring

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Deep infrastructure & workload insight

StorageCompute Network

Comprehensive System Center Monitoring

StorageCompute

Windows Azure

VMware vSphere monitoring with VEEAM Management Pack

Expanded cloud infrastructure health visualization with integration between VMM and Operations Manager components

Native SNMP-based network monitoring

Cloud-integrated monitoring Integrated System Center Advisor views with Operations Manager connector

Windows Server 2012

VMware vSphere

Availability and performance monitoring for Windows Azure Virtual Machines & Windows Azure Storage

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Automation and self-service

Self-service app provisioning, incl. multitenant environments

Empower app owners while retaining control

Unified management views & artifacts b/w Windows Server & Azure

Common management tools for on-premises and cloud

Scale application tiers via automation & integration

Dynamically expand capacity to support app SLA

Standardized application provisioning with service templates (e.g., SharePoint farms)

Scalable multi-VM tenant services with Windows Azure-consistent user experience (e.g. SQL cluster)

Unified view across clouds with App ControllerExtend datacenter capacity with common VM templates & VHD images: • VHDs for first party

workloads like SharePoint

• VHDs for Windows Server & Linux

IT demandsSystem Center 2012 R2 delivers

Application agility while IT retains control

Robust automation workflows with Orchestrator and PowerShellWindows Azure Integration Pack for automated compute & storage deploymentSharePoint Integration Pack

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Web tier Application tier Data tier

Internet Information Services (IIS)

Scale out and health policy.

Application Server

HW profile

OS profile

Scale out and health policy.

SQL Server

HW profile

OS profile

Scale out and health policy.

HW profile

OS profile

App profile

App profile

Appprofile

Service template (multi-tier .NET applications)

Compute Storage Network

Web (IIS) Server App-V Data (SQL)

Standardized application provisioning

App

owner

DC admi

n

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Demo video: Standardized provisioning of SharePoint farms using service templatesDownload this service template and model your SharePoint farm today

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Unified management view across clouds

Flexible delegation with single sign-on

Self-service visibility for application services across on-premises, service provider, and Windows Azure

Easy VM and workload portability from on-premises to Windows Azure (including SharePoint and SQL)

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Application performance monitoring

Deep application insight

Assure LOB application SLA

Integrated dev-ops that spans people, process and systems

Enable rapid application lifecycle

Cloud-integrated insight in familiar monitoring console

Assure great end-user experiences & Microsoft workload health

.Net and Java monitoring, including line-of-code level traceability Integrated transaction monitoring with BlueStripe

Faster issue tracking and remediation with System Center-Visual Studio connectorEfficient app debugging with Microsoft Monitoring Agent

Outside-in monitoring with Global Service MonitorBest practice configurations for MS workloads with System Center Advisor connectorManagement Packs for Microsoft workloads and third party ISV apps

IT demandsSystem Center 2012 R2 delivers

Deep insight into application health

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Overcoming the dev-ops disconnect

OpsDev

“Hey, I just got a call about a failed application.”

“Do you know what might have caused the failure?”

“How would I know? You wrote the code!”

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Triage and remediate

Discover application

dependencies

Monitor client and

server components

of the application

Isolate root cause

Discover application

dependencies

Monitor client and

server components

of the application

Isolate root cause

Deep application insight for .NET applications

Isolate root causeMonitor client and server components of the application

Discover application dependenciesTriage and remediateComprehensive monitoring

& deep application insight help you “get to green”

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Deep application insight for Java applications Java Tomcat application server support (v5.5, v6 and v7).

Windows & RHEL/SUSE Linux guest OS support.

Multiple instrumented Java frameworks, incl. web services and database connectors.

Code-level traceability with performance and exception metrics.

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Supported JEE application servers

Supported operating systems matrix

RHEL SLES Solaris AIX Windows

IBM Webshare 6.1, 7.0

Oracle WebLogic 11gRel1, 10gRel3

Redhat JBoss 4.2, 5.1, 6

Apache Tomcat 5.5, 6.0, 7

Java EE monitoring-supported platforms

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Operations manager

Web test

Cloud-integrated insight with Global Service Monitor (GSM)

Production application

Microsoft Visual

Studio 2012

Work item + results

Results

Results

Call web app

Web test + schedule

Global Service Monitor

!On-premises

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“It’s great for us that Visual Studio 2012 Lab Manager leverages Systems Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager, which is a full private cloud management solution. Deployment of applications such as SQL Server are now fully automated through application templates.”

—Joe Chiu, Software Development Engineer, Xbox Live, Microsoft Corporation (in the context of Xbox Live being able to reduce release cycles from months to days)

Comprehensive monitoring

Deep application diagnostics

Quick isolation of root cause withline-of-code level insight

Process and tool-driven collaboration

Overcoming the dev-ops disconnect

Dev Ops

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IT service management

Self-service requests for private cloud capacity

Enable easy publishing & consumption of IT services

Industry-standard service management and process workflows

Integrate people, process and knowledge

Business and operational insight

Efficient resource utilization & SLA tracking

Service catalog, including support for SharePoint 2013Cloud Service Process Pack (CSPP) Flexible service offerings and service request templates

Automated workflows for incident, problem, change & release managementConfiguration management database (CMDB)

VM-level metering and price sheetsSLA reporting data warehouse Integration with Cloud Cruiser cost analytics solution for chargeback

IT demandsSystem Center 2012 R2 delivers

Flexible service delivery

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Approve request

Process automation

Self-service deployment

request

Access service catalog

Provision service

Access service catalogSelf-service deployment requestApprove requestProcess automationProvision service

Flexible service delivery

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Deliver business and operational insight with chargeback

Cloud

$ Virtual Machine/day

$ Cloud Membership/day

$ Virtual Machine CPU Core/day

$ Virtual Machine Memory GB/day

$ Virtual Machine Storage GB/day

Price Sheet

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Why choose System Center 2012 R2 Simple and cost-effective

In-box service templates and runbooks for System Center components

Web-based interfaces to System Center capabilities to help integrate existing investments

Standards-based top-of-rack network switch configuration

Windows Server file-based storage and Storage Spaces support

Extensible service management automation and integration

Workload protection & recovery across datacenters with Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager

Enterprise-class

Best-of-breed management for Windows Server and Microsoft workloads

Multitenant virtual networking, including edge gateway provisioning to bridge physical and virtual networks

Support for VM connectivity into virtual Fibre Channel SAN

Multi-hypervisor support, including Hyper-V, VMware, and Citrix

Robust open source support: Dynamic Memory for Linux, Unix/ Linux monitoring and configuration

Unified monitoring for on-premises and Windows Azure infrastructure

Application focused

Easy VM portability and management between Windows Server and Windows Azure

Deep .NET and Java application monitoring and diagnostics

Standardized app provisioning with service templates

Integrated dev-ops with System Center-Visual Studio connector

Cloud-integrated app and workload insight with Global Service Monitor and System Center Advisor

Management Packs with extensive built-in knowledge for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint

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Next steps: Transform your datacenter with System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Download and evaluate System Center 2012 R2 Preview http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/evaluate/trial-software.aspx

Refer to additional System Center 2012 R2 resources.http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter

System Center marketplacehttp://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com

Check out our blogshttp://blogs.technet.com/server-cloud

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© 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

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Appendix

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System Center 2012 R2: Unified management for the Cloud OS

1. Multi-hypervisor private clouds2. Multitenant virtual networks 3. SAN & file-based storage

management4. Robust Linux support 5. Process automation & integration

6. APM for .NET and Java apps 7. Cloud-integrated monitoring & dev-

ops 8. VM portability across clouds9. Service Provider Foundation10. Service templates

Top System Center 2012 R2 features

Enterprise-class Simple and cost-effective

Applicationfocused

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Application performance monitoring

Infrastructure provisioning

Orchestrator Integration Pack for SharePoint (new)

Snapshot running VMs without downtime

Dynamic Memory resize for running VMs

Service management automation with REST APIs & PowerShell

Automated Hyper-V cluster upgrades w/o downtime using Live Migration ODX support for faster VM provisioning from templates

Updated System Center Integration packs

Virtual Fibre channel SAN connectivity support

Storage Spaces support

File-level Linux VM backups, restore full Linux VM

System Center Advisor connector for Operations Manager

System Center Advisor connector for Operations Manager

SharePoint 2013 support for Service Manager portal

Java APM Microsoft Monitoring Agent

Native SNMP monitoring and IPv6 support

VMM integration with Operations Manager for fabric health visualization

What’s new in System Center 2012 R2

Automation and self-service

Infrastructure monitoring

IT Service Management

System Center Management Pack for Windows Azure

Dynamic VHDX resize

Dynamic Memory support for Linux VMs

Service templates for DPM, Service Manager, SPF and Ops. Mgr.

Runbook based configuration for all System Center components

Tenant-level usage metering and reporting

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Virtual Machine Manager

• Multi-hypervisor support

• Multitenant isolation with virtual networks,

• Multitenant edge gateway provisioning to bridge physical and virtual networks

• Storage management, incl. VM connectivity into fiber channel SANs & Storage Spaces support

• Service templates

• Server application virtualization

• Dynamic Optimization & Power Optimization

• Windows-Azure consistent VM management and virtual network APIs

• Preserve and optimize existing infrastructure investments

• Improve infrastructure SLAs

• Reduce operational expense

• Flexible provisioning in shared multitenant environments

• End to end management of virtualized and cloud datacenter resources

• Save time with standardized service creation and upgrades

• Enable consistent management experiences between Windows Server and Windows Azure environments

SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R2 BENEFITS

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• Comprehensive physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure monitoring using familiar console

• Enhanced dev-ops collaboration and decreased time to resolution with deep application insight

• Improve insights with personalized reporting

• Cloud-integrated insight to assure predictable application and workload SLA

Operations Manager

• .NET and Java Application performance management

• Monitoring across on-premises and Windows Azure (incl. System Center Management Pack for Windows Azure)

• Improved UNIX and Linux support• Network monitoring• Customizable dashboards• Global Service Monitor • Integrated System Center Advisor

views• Integrated dev-ops• Management packs for Microsoft

workloads and third party ISV apps

SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R2 BENEFITS

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Orchestrator

• Workflow automation

• Enable integration of third-party management tools

• Simple design of custom workflow runbooks

• Updated Integration Packs (IP), incl. Windows Azure IP & SharePoint IP

• Service Provider Foundation (SPF)

Enable aggregation of multiple infrastructure stamps

REST-based web APIs for System Center components

Service management automation including built-in PowerShell workflows and REST APIs

• Lower costs and increase reliability by automating repetitive tasks

• Simplify heterogeneous datacenter management

• Have IT resources focus on higher business impact projects

• Enable multitenant infrastructure provisioning and custom automation

• Enable service provider infrastructure to be easily consumed by enterprises

SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R2 BENEFITS

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App Controller

• Role-based access for the app owner

• Single view of delegated resources across private and public clouds

• Deploy and manage services in addition to virtual machines

• VM portability between Windows Server and Windows Azure

• Expose service provider infrastructure to enterprises through SPF integration

• Increase app owner agility with self-service interface

• Save time by bringing together all delegated infrastructure

• Improve reliability by deploying template-based services

• Flexible datacenter capacity management

• Unified view across on-premises, service provider and Windows Azure infrastructure

SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R2 BENEFITS

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Service Manager

• Service catalog

• Self-service request portal

• Release and SLA management

• Data warehousing and reporting

• Cloud Service Process Pack (CSPP)

• Chargeback metering and price sheets for VMs

• SharePoint 2013 support for service request portal

• Increase organizational agility with customized service offerings

• Improve corporate compliance through process management

• Improve business intelligence through customized reporting and basic chargeback

SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R2 BENEFITS

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• Save time with consolidated management server console

• Secure access for the broader IT team

• Quicker time to recovery

• Granular protection for Microsoft workloads

Data Protection Manager

• Centralized management of servers with Data Protection Manager

• Role-based administration

• Item-level recovery for virtual machines

• Best of breed protection and recovery for Microsoft workloads (Exchange, SharePoint, SQL)

SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R2 BENEFITS

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Configuration Manager

• Improved settings management with remediation

• Integrated antimalware with System Center Endpoint Protection

• Delegated administration

• Linux/Unix configuration support

• Reduce compliance complexity

• Improve support for virtualized environments

• Reduce cost through integrated security

• Cross-platform configuration

SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R2 BENEFITS