I’m tuning into the live webcast of today’s (there’s another tomorrow) Microsoft Management Summit 2010 keynote featuring server management. I’ll be doing my best to blog about new stuff as it happens.
System Center Service Manager 2010 is announced as RTM. Sorry dudes! YEARS of work (and rework) and I thought you’d get more of a launch than that.
Jeez, an hour later and I’ve not got much more to report. There’s a lot of talk about cloud (nothing new) and a lot of talk about old concepts (using System Center to do more, and more engineering rather than operations).
EDIT: Someone on Twitter counted the number of times “cloud” was mentioned. The final count was 83. Cloud OD.
The next generation of System Center data center is based on lessons from Azure and Bing. Edwin Yuen hits the stage. Now we’re cooking!
VMM v.Next
It looks quite different! It has the cleaner v.Next interface rather than the Outlook 2007 one we are used to. Server application virtualization, SQL models and MSDeploy (IIS) packages live in the library. The template model is evolved to a service template spanning multiple servers or tiers. We see a demo of a 3 tier application. You can drop OS templates (that we know) and “Server App-V”/MSDeploy packages which we can drop into the model. You can say that you want X numbers of server in a tier in the model. You can tier your storage to standard or high performance. So you’ve got X variations of servers made from a few Server App-V images and OS templates.
Seriously – I could use this right now. I have recurring deployments that I could model like this.
You can integrate with WSUS and perform a patching compliance report based on the VHD in the library! You can then remediate this image in the library. Now – VMM knows which VMM managed VM’s need to be updated! You don’t need to patch the running VM OS. You can <Update Service>, to replace the running OS, while keeping the Server App-V package.
Operations Manager & Azure
How you can monitor Azure and on-premises for seamless application monitoring using OpsMgr 2007 R2. We see a distributed application containing traditional monitored items (including databases and web watchers) and an Azure presence. OpsMgr integrates into Azure using a soon-to-be-released (“later this year sometime”) management pack to gather performance information. A task is there to add new web role instances in Azure. Nice and simple!
Deployment of more Azure instances is based on real (synthetic transaction monitoring) measured performance data. Expansion (or withdrawal) of new instances can be easily done through the same monitoring interface based in your site.
That’s the end. Really only had good content in the last 22 minutes of a 82 minute keynote. A quite short post compared to what I would do at an MS Ireland event lasting the same time (see last week for a 3 hour session).