Datacenter Virtualization & Management Overview

Your datacenter is a dynamic heterogeneous environment. Using Microsoft System Center 2012 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V you can deliver highly available and performing services across your heterogeneous infrastructure.

• Benefit from flexible, high performance virtualization and management for business critical Microsoft applications. Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center 2012 provide best-of-breed virtualization and management for top-teir Microsoft server applications like Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL Server.
• Optimize datacenter resource utilization through dynamic responses to workload demands, including cross-site business continuity and disaster recovery. Using the advanced virtualization and management capabilities of System Center 2012 along with partner solutions, you can implement business continuity solutions to minimize downtime and improve service reliability.

Monitoring and management tools that only inspect the operating system and hypervisor layers can miss vital application-layer warnings that can quickly escalate into service outages and impact users. System Center 2012 provides comprehensive monitoring and management that covers the hardware layer, the hypervisor layer, the operating system layer, and the application layer thus providing deep insights into the applications, helping in rapid resolution of problems, and increasing application uptime.

• Improve service health and performance through deep application knowledge and packaged best practices with application-aware data protection.

Through packaged integration with third party tools and systems, both multi-hypervisor management (including VMware) and cross-platform monitoring is optimized.

 

An infrastructure that can dynamically respond to workload demands, including cross-site business continuity and disaster recovery enables you to gain control of your datacenter and optimize for resource utilization. Using the advanced virtualization and management capabilities of System Center 2012 along with partner solutions such as those from HP and Citrix, you can implement business continuity solutions to minimize downtime and improve service reliability.

Standardizing and automating your datacenter processes is key to lowering costs and improving service reliability while preparing you for highly automated cloud computing models. At the same time, regulatory pressures drive up compliance costs making automation critical to keep in line with operational budgets. System Center 2012 enables IT organizations to improve their operational efficiency and compliance by delivering deep datacenter automation capabilities and solutions.

Streamline datacenter management processes like incident management, change management, and problem management by implementing industry-standard best practices like MOF and ITIL through automated workflows. We also offer a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) to track inter-relationships between service components.

Automating repetitive processes saves costs, reduces manual errors, and ensures repeatability in process execution. More importantly, it ensures that scarce IT resources can focus their time on higher value-added activities. System Center 2012 automates workflows in an orchestrated manner between cross-silo processes, systems, and management tools.

Automate enforcement of risk management and compliance using packaged knowledge. System Center 2012 enables organizations to demonstrate compliance with key industry regulations and standards by helping streamline end-to-end processes like establishing control objectives, automating implementation of control activities, and fulfilling audit requirements.

Microsoft solutions for private cloud built with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center 2012 provides the benefits of cloud computing through the pooling of resources, elasticity, and self-service, while offering deep insight into applications, cross-platform support, and the ability to extend workloads between Microsoft private cloud and public cloud environments.

 

Only a Microsoft private cloud enables application-level management and monitoring providing deep insights into the applications. Deep application insights along with the ability to automatically orchestrate resources enable you to deliver applications as services, rapidly resolve problems, increase application uptime and meet desired SLAs.

 

Learn more about Microsoft Private Cloud.