Transcript Eamon O’Reilly Group Program Manager Microsoft Ravi Kiran Chintalapudi Program Manager Microsoft Session Objectives and Takeaways • Session Objective(s): • Understand why Microsoft built System Center Essentials • Learn.

Eamon O’Reilly
Group Program Manager
Microsoft
Ravi Kiran Chintalapudi
Program Manager
Microsoft
Session Objectives and Takeaways
• Session Objective(s):
• Understand why Microsoft built System Center
Essentials
• Learn IT Management capabilities of System Center
Essentials
• Introduce new capabilities available in Essentials
2010
• Demonstrate how Essentials makes IT management
easier
IT Pressures of midsized businesses
“E-mail is critical for my company,
server downtime is bad for business”
“Software installation
for desktops should
be quick and easy –it’s
not!”
“Keeping OS
and applications
updated with the
latest patches is timeconsuming”
“I’m expected to do
more and save money
without any more
staff”
“Need to reduce
hardware costs: Server
power, cooling…”
“End-user
troubleshooting is
manual for us –
telephone, e-mail, and
remote desktop”
“Our hardware and
software inventory is
in spreadsheets.
It’s hard to pull it
all together”
Unified solution for midsize businesses
A unified solution with a single console for managing
your physical and virtual servers, desktops, hardware,
software, and IT services
Unified
Experience
Proactive
Management
Increased
Efficiency
Monitoring, troubleshooting and asset tracking to keep
your IT environment secure and up-to-date
Simple execution of complex management tasks like
troubleshooting end user issues, monitoring, creating
and managing virtual servers, software deployment
System Center Family of Products
User info
IT Generalist
Manages server as
secondary
responsibility
Manages server
as primary but
shared
responsibility
1-2 full time IT
Generalists
5-10 full time IT
Generalists with some
area of focus
Specialists per workload
Home Users
Small Business
10
25
Enterprise
Midsize Business
Lower Midmarket
Upper Midmarket
Core Midmarket
50
100
250
System
Center
Products
Platform
# of
PCs
MS
Segment
IT Specialist
Do It Yourselfer (DIY)*
Workgroup Edition
500
Integrated management designed
for medium sized companies with
up to 50 servers and 500 Clients
The Roadmap for Essentials
Essentials
2007
May
‘07
RTM
Essentials
SP1
March
’08
SP1
2010
May
’09
CTP
Sept
‘09
Beta
Winter Spring
’10
‘10
RTM
RC
Unified
Experience
Proactive
Management
Increased
Efficiency
•Integrated Virtualization Management
•Dynamic Computer Grouping
•Server limit increased to 50
•Auto-Manage Updates & Deadline
•Software Distribution Targeting
•Management Pack Importer for Monitoring
•Quick provisioning of new virtual machines
•Easy machine conversions from physical-to-virtual
•Intelligent placement of virtual workloads
Unified Console
Unified
Experience
•
Single view of the IT environment
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Overviews w/ summaries and health
Integrated virtualization that’s simple to
use
Easy to find workspaces w/ pertinent
data
In-line tasks, reporting and help
New in 2010
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Overview pages w/ contextual click-thru
Streamlined group creation for common
attributes
Notification Banners for new MP’s
Streamlined management tasks
Custom views w/ search support
Inventory & Reports
Unified
Experience
Keep track of hardware and software assets
60+ HW & SW inventory attributes
HW – WMI properties
SW – Add/Remove Programs
Inventory is preset and reported every 22 hours
Inventoried only if a change is detected
Delivered from signed inventory rules file
Visibility thru ready-to-use reports
Daily Health Report providing quick status
180 reports available
New reports available w/ each imported MP
Key reports on each overview page
New in 2010
Virtualization Candidates
Host Virtual Machine Utilization
Security & Critical Update Compliance Report
Essentials Overview
Essentials Monitoring
Proactive
Management
Monitor your IT environment end-to-end
Rich knowledge out of the box to help diagnose & fix
alerts
Simple in-line tasks to click and “fix it now.”
Remote control support for managed clients & servers
Ability to customize monitoring
Network devices with SNMPv1 or v2
Notification of problems via email, pager, or SMS
2010 Investments
Monitoring import & maintenance via the web
Inline Notification Creation
Service Level Wizards & Reports
Essentials Monitoring
Proactive
Management
Management Packs
Essentials uses same MP’s as Operations Manager
Refined for midsized environments to cut noise
Add custom monitoring from partners & vendors
Microsoft MP’s available for download
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sce/cc462787.aspx
Remote Troubleshooting
Detailed information on user’s PC configuration
Perform remote tasks right from the console
Ping, List Processes, IPConfig, etc.
Monitoring
Software Deployment
Increased
Efficiency
Quickly Administer & Distribute Software
Deploy software applications for clients &
servers
Simple 5-step application install wizard
Support for MSI and EXE applications
Deployment status reporting
Install now support
Easily uninstall applications deployed
New in 2010
Support for common targeting filters
Modify properties of existing packages
Localized title/description during package
creation
Update Management
Increased
Efficiency
Easily Configure & Track IT Updates
Update management for Microsoft and 3rd parties
Multi-member group support for flexible targeting
Compliance & status reports across the IT
environment
“Big Red Button” for installation of pressing updates
Built upon WSUS technology
New in 2010
Auto-manage the software updates needed
Auto-approval deadlines- “Set and Forget”
Ability to sync with MU multiple times daily
Simple view for ‘Needed updates’
Updates
Virtual Machine Management
Increased
Efficiency
Maximize your resources
Virtualization management incorporated
Reduced learning curve with workspace
integration
Comprehensive monitoring of total physical and
virtual server environments
Rapid provisioning of new hosts and virtual
machines
Fast and reliable P2V and V2V conversion
Flexibility for your environment
Win 2008 Server & Hyper-V for new 64-bit
Win 2003 Server & Virtual Server for 32-bit
Virtualization as a setup component
Import of existing virtual servers & VMWare
Virtual Machine Management
Increased
Efficiency
2010 Virtualization Features
Host Configuration
Virtual Machine Creation
Copy VM from another server (P2V or V2V)
Snapshots of VM’s for quick backups
Intelligent Placement
Simplicity from the start
Pre-configured virtual machine templates
Short task based wizards
Automated network configuration
Enterprise-class functionality for midsized
businesses
Physical-to-Virtual Conversion
Increased
Efficiency
Intuitive and easy to use
Core feature of Essentials, no additional infrastructure
or costs per conversion
5 step wizard based experience
Automatically retrieves source configuration
Configurable storage, memory, CPU, etc.
Preserves network settings and MAC addresses
Optional source shutdown
Intelligent Placement to identify hosts
Automatically determines best host for a VM
Uses VM properties and host configuration
Factors in Memory, Disk size, Network, CPU
Recommendations for easy decision
Virtualization Machine Management
Installing & Configuring Essentials
Increased
Efficiency
Setup
Abstracts the complex process of installing
Simple 10-screen setup
Automated Prerequisite Remediation
Modular Setup of Components
Dynamic updates at install time
Core Management Packs Only
Configuration
Simple to configure, guided step-by-step
Wizard-driven experience for initial configuration
Extended criteria for Scheduled Discovery
Policy conflict detection
Monitoring Configuration Wizard
recommends monitoring experience
automatically imports and updates MP’s
Integrated Virtual and Physical IT Management for Medium-Sized Businesses
Unified
Experience
Proactive
Management
Increased
Efficiency
•Integrated Virtualization Management
•Dynamic Computer Grouping
•Server limit increased to 50
•Auto-Manage Updates & Deadline
•Software Distribution Targeting
•Management Pack Importer for Monitoring
•Quick provisioning of new virtual machines
•Easy machine conversions from physical-to-virtual
•Intelligent placement of virtual workloads
System Center Essentials Resources
Beta now available on http://www.microsoft.com/sce
Tech Center (for documentation and downloads):
http://technet.microsoft.com/sce/default.aspx
Microsoft Virtualization Homepage
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization
Microsoft System Center Homepage
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/
Twitter
System Center Midsize Business: http://twitter.com/DMills_MS
System Center Essentials: http://twitter.com/SCessentials
Self Help Resources
TechNet http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sce/selfhelp.mspx
Product Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenteressentials
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Feature Comparison With OpsMgr 2007
Monitoring
OpsMgr
2007
Essentials
2010*
Essentials 2010 difference
Monitoring of Windows Servers, Clients,
Hardware, Software and Services
√
√
Management Packs with Expert Knowledge
√
√
Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM)
√
√
Add Monitoring Wizard
√
√
Reporting
√
√
Essentials data storage limited to 40
days. No report authoring
Branch office monitoring
√
√
Essentials 2010 is a single server
solution; no tiered connection
of servers
Role-based security
√
Connector Framework
√
Audit Collection Services
√
Web Console
√
Cross-platform support
√
Essentials ships with a Network
device management pack
Local or domain admin only for
Essentials 2010 server
Feature Comparison With ConfigMgr 2007
Configuration
ConfigMgr
2007
Essentials
2010*
Essentials 2007 difference
Patch Mgmt (Microsoft and Third party)
√
√
Software Distribution
√
√
Essentials offers basic .MSI and .EXE
deployment with optional command
line parameters. No advanced
packaging capability.
Hardware and Software Inventory
√
√
Essentials collects 60+ fixed software
and hardware attributes.
Configuration Manager 2007
inventory is extensible
Branch office updates and software dist.
√
√
Essentials is a single server solution
using BITS 2.0 (bandwidth aware). No
site replication servers
Operating System Deployment
√
Desired Configuration management
√
Wake on LAN
√
Network Address Protection (NAP) integration
√
SMB vSphere vs. Microsoft
vSphere
Essentials
vSphere Essentials Plus
$1,098 x 2 =
$2,196
$4,388
x 2 = $8,776.28
2.9x more
expensive
11.59x more expensive
vSMP Support
4-way
4-way
4-way
4-way
4-way
Physical Memory
256GB
256GB
1TB
256GB
1TB
(Host/OS only)
(Host/OS only)
(Host/OS only)
(HW/Host/OS/MS
Apps/ 3rd Party Apps)
Price
Cost Difference
System
Updates
HA/Clustering
Live Migration
Backup/Recovery
Cross Hypervisor
Server & Desktop
Management
In-guest Monitoring
DRS/PRO
HW/SW Inventory
SW Deployment
VMM Workgroup
Edition (WGE)
vSphere Essentials
Plus
$757 +
$0 (WS08R2
or HV R2) =
$757
$4,388
x 2 = $8,776.28
VMM WGE + SCE
$757 + $0 + $2,411
[SCE with 10 Server/
50 Desktop CALs] =
$3,168
2.77x more
expensive
Free Hypervisor Feature Comparison
VMware ESXi 3
VMware ESXi 4
Hyper-V Server
2008 R2
$0
$0
$0
32-bit
64-bit
64-bit
32 Logical Processors
64 Logical Processors
64 Logical Processors
vSMP Support
4-way
4-way
4-way
Host Physical Memory
256GB
1TB
1TB
Virtual Machine Memory
64GB
255GB
64GB
(Only with per host
upgrade to full VI3 license
$2-4K)
(Only with per host
upgrade to full vSphere
license $2-4K)
(free with VMM server
license, no per host cost)
Price
Bare-metal Hypervisor
Boot from Flash
Host Processors
Free Remote Management Client
Live Migration
High Availability/Failover Clustering
Host based console for
configuration and troubleshooting
Compatibility with Centralized
Multi-host Management
(vCenter/VMM)
Feature Comparison With Hyper-V & VMM
Configuration
Hyper-V Console
Essentials 2010
VMM
Templates
X
X
VM Cloning
X
X
Candidate Identification
X
X
Physical to Virtual Conversion
X
X
Virtual to Virtual Conversion
X
X
Migration across physical machines
X
X
Virtualization Reports
X
X
Monitoring VMs
Physical resource optimization (PRO)
Library
Provisioning
VM configuration & properties
VM state
Checkpoints (Snapshots)
64 bit guest OS
Hardware Assisted Virtualization
Live thumbnail
Synthetic Network Support
Import VM (multiple VHD +
snapshot)
Configure advanced network settings
Inspect Disk
Export VM
VMWare Management
Self-service console
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X