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Build Your Own Microsoft Private Cloud

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System Center 2012

Manage your private cloud with familiar tools that you may already use in your datacenter.

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Implementing a Microsoft private cloud will deliver many of the benefits of public cloud computing—including self-service, scalability, and elasticity—with the additional control and customization available from dedicated resources. Building your own private cloud gives you additional flexibility, and in some cases can provide better security and regulatory compliance. We recommend building your own Microsoft private cloud with help from a Microsoft partner or Microsoft Consulting Services, who have been trained to architect, build and deploy private cloud solutions.    
 
Explore the tabs below to follow the three steps to getting started with building your own Microsoft private cloud:
 
  • Step 1 - Find a partner.
  • Step 2 - Download the Microsoft Private Cloud Deployment Guides
  • Step 3 - Download trial software
  • Step 4 - Explore licensing for Microsoft private cloud products
 
We also recommend this short video for more help getting started.

Jumpstart with Microsoft Services

Microsoft Services provides a wealth of knowledge that comes from working with thousands of customers around the world, as well as direct access to the product groups designing Microsoft software. Building on this experience, Services provides a set of flexible Microsoft private cloud solutions to meet your needs based on industry leading cloud design principles. With an extensible platform for applications and services, Microsoft Services can help you get started with cloud computing. In addition, with the new Microsoft Private Cloud Jumpstart offer, they can help you get your private cloud deployment up and running in just 20 days. Read the datasheet and contact your Microsoft account team to learn more.

Find a Microsoft Partner

Microsoft is making significant investments in partners who can help you get started with cloud computing. Microsoft private cloud partners have specialized resources, industry knowledge, and best practices to help you plan, build, and deploy commercial private and public clouds based on Windows Server Hyper-V, System Center, and related products. To find partners who can help you with your Microsoft private cloud implementation, visit Microsoft Pinpoint.

To learn how to become a Microsoft Private Cloud partner, visit the Microsoft Partner Network.

Microsoft Private Cloud Deployment Guides

To help you work effectively with your partner of choice, we recommend the Microsoft Private Cloud Deployment Guides, a collection of best practices based on a Microsoft Consulting Services framework. They are designed to help you deploy a Microsoft private cloud using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, and the Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0.

Benefits

  • Accelerate deployment by providing best practices for planning and delivering a Microsoft private cloud based on Microsoft Virtualization technologies.
  • Reduce training costs by providing methodologies for delivering Server Virtualization scenarios.
  • Lower risk by providing real-world examples of problems and solutions encountered by Microsoft architects and consultants.

Download the Microsoft Private Cloud Deployment Guides here:

 

Download Trial Software

There are two technologies that form the basis of a Microsoft private cloud: Windows Server 2008 R2 and System Center 2012. Learn more about each and download trial versions to get started with your Microsoft private cloud implementation.

Deployment Guides

Hyper-V, the Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, is a core component of the Microsoft private cloud. Hyper-V helps you to make the best use of your server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical machine. It also helps you efficiently run multiple, different operating systems-Windows, Linux, and others-in parallel, on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing.



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System Center

System Center 2012 products, currently in pre-release, help your organization achieve IT as a Service by enabling productive infrastructure, predictable applications, and cloud computing on your terms with a common management experience. You can deliver flexible and cost effective private cloud infrastructure to your business units in a self-service model, while carrying forward your existing datacenter investments. Recognizing that applications run your business, System Center 2012 products offer deep application insight combined with a service-centric approach that helps you deliver predictable application services.



Next steps for System Center 2012:

The release versions of System Center are still available for your private cloud implementation:

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Licensing for Private Cloud Products

Enrollment for Core Infrastructure (ECI)

The best option for licensing Microsoft private cloud products is the Enrollment for Core Infrastructure (ECI). ECI lets you standardize on the familiar Microsoft tools you use every day and move them beyond the desktop to equip devices and users where they are needed. With the enterprise enrollment, you can choose to run PC and device software and cloud services across your organization. Such organization-wide implementations help you reduce device and user management costs, and also provide additional pricing advantages above the standard volume pricing levels.

Partners

Microsoft Private Cloud partners can help you deploy your private cloud.

OEM Partners

Get a pre-validated configuration from OEM partners.

Jumpstart

Explore a production private cloud, delivered by Microsoft Services.

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Top Trials

  • Hyper-V, the Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, is a core component of the Microsoft private cloud.

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  • Deliver flexible and cost effective private cloud infrastructure to your business units in a self-service model, while leveraging your existing datacenter investments.

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