Fundamentals of Building Clouds

Shawn GibbsCarmen CrincoliKath McBrideCharles Joy

IM-B303

Pre-Talk Q&A

Q: Who are We?A: Program Managers for Windows Server and System Center

Q: How are you going to cover so much ground in 75 minutes?A: Lots of summarization.

Q: OMG, I’ll never remember all of this.A: Stay calm, we’ve got you covered. http://aka.ms/BuildingClouds

Demo

• System Center Cloud

piecing it together

fabric

• Hosts

• Networking

• Storage

• Control

• Deployment

fabric design and configuration

Birds-Of-A-Feather• BOF07 Deploying All of System Center

Breakouts• SD-B302 Automating System Center Deployment with the Powershell

Deployment Toolkit• WS-B314 Implementing Common Storage Scenarios in Windows Server

2012 with System Center Virtual Machine Manager• WS-B312 How to Design and Configure Networking in VMM and HyperV

(Part 1 of 2)• WS-B313 How to Design and Configure Networking in VMM and HyperV

(Part 2 of 2)• WS-B309 File Storage Strategies for Private Cloud

Labs• IM-IL205 System Center 2012: Configuring your Infrastructure• IM-IL206 System Center 2012: Configuring your Private Cloud

dive-in

piecing it together – fabric

automation

• automation: the unsung hero• starting from the process• transforming theory into reality• sweat the small stuff

• provisioning• self-service request, cloud and user role assignment, app url warm-up, notification, and

service delivery• 100s of automated decisions, logic, error handling and other moving parts• 1 result

• deprovisioning• even more moving parts, and now with more “heavy lifting”

• maintenance

orchestrating cloud

Birds-Of-A-Feather• BOF06 Service Manager and Orchestrator: Automation Best Use Cases -

Open Discussion• BOF09 System Center Orchestrator Use Cases

Breakouts• SD-B315 Getting Started with Orchestrator and Service Manager• SD-B310 Best in Breed Together: Real World Scenarios with Service

Manager and Orchestrator• SD-B308 Orchestrating Azure and System Center 2012• SD-B309 Orchestrating Hyper-V Replica Planned Failover with System

Center 2012 SP1

Labs• SD-L302 System Center 2012: Automation• SD-L307 Orchestrator 2012 Overview and Automation of IT Process

dive-in

piecing it together – automation

self-service and metering

• Definition from Wikipedia• Self Service is the practice of serving oneself, usually when purchasing items Common example: many gas stations: customer pumps their own gas rather than have an attendant do it • IT Self Service: Allows a user to access the IT resources, solutions, etc. that they require

without any (or limited) manual intervention from IT

• Cloud Self Service Touch Points: Its all about the User!• Service Manager Self Serve Portal• Application Controller Portal• Application Diagnostics Portal• Others:• Orchestrator Portal• Operations Manager Portal• Service Management Portal (Azure Cloud Services for Windows/Service Provider Framework)

self service

• Process: defines the solution• defining the user requirements• capture all users touch points• collecting the data required by automation• what questions need to be asked• How do we display results (pick lists, drop down menus, true / false, checkbox, text)

• Defining configurations required in the portals

• Provisioning: building it in System Center• connecting orchestrator to service manager• creating the templates• creating the service and request offerings

• Portal customizations• adding company name and logo

defining the self service solution

• Definition from Gartner• Metered by Use: usage metrics to enable multiple payment modelsUse of Service Billing Model: multiple levels of service, different pricing plans, and models Examples: pay-as-you go plans, subscriptions, fixed plans and even free plans**chargeback vs showback

• System Center: Chargeback • Virtual Machine Manger: visibility to and management of the cloud fabric• Operations Manager: monitoring of private cloud resources including capacity, and availability• Service Manager : CMDB contains information about the private cloud components

: price sheets: is association of a set of prices for various attributes for a VM and associate these to private clouds• Service Manager Data Warehouse: reporting and business intelligence cubes

metering

metering dashboards

self service / metering demoKath McBride

piecing it together – self-service/metering

app management

application managementKey Focus Areas• Time to deployment – Creating a repeatable and consistent deployment• Time to resolution – Solving issues in a timely manner

• How?• Standardizing deployment and servicing via

service templates

• Monitoring during the application life cycle including at deployment.

application management - demoShawn Gibbs

Breakouts• AM-B302 Developers and Operations Engineers: System Center and Visual

Studio• AM-B201 Monitoring Applications Using APM, Global Service Monitor, and

Visual Studio Web Testing• SD-B201 Implementing Common Scenarios in Virtual Machine Manager:

Services and Service Templates

Labs• AM-IL203 Transform the Datacenter Immersion Part 3 of 4: Application

Management• AM-IL301 System Center 2012: Application Performance Monitoring

dive-in

piecing it together – app management

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Demo backup slides

Orchestrator runbook

Service Manager: runbook

Service Manager: runbook template

Service Manager: request template

Service Manager: request offering

Service Manager: service offering

Service Manager: the portal

Service Manager: price sheets

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