UPDATE : #Microsoft Integration Packs for System Center 2012 – #Orchestrator #SC2012 #SCVMM2012

System Center 2012 – Orchestrator includes over 41 built-in workflow standard activities that perform a wide variety of functions. You can expand Orchestrator’s functionality and ability to integrate with other Microsoft and third-party platforms and products by installing integration packs. Integration packs for Orchestrator contain additional activities that extend the functionality of Orchestrator.
You can download integration packs from the Microsoft Download Center. Each integration pack has a guide that provides installation instructions, describes any known issues, and includes reference information for all of the activities supported by the integration pack.
Microsoft provides integration packs for all of the System Center products, as well as other Microsoft and third party products and technologies.

UPDATE :  System Center 2012 – Orchestrator 2012 Component Add-ons and Extensions DOWNLOAD HERE

The following integration packs are available:

Active Directory Integration Pack for System Center 2012 – Orchestrator

HP iLO and OA Integration Pack for System Center 2012 – Orchestrator

HP Operations Manager Integration Pack for System Center 2012 – Orchestrator

HP Service Manager Integration Pack for System Center 2012 – Orchestrator

IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Integration Pack for System Center 2012 – Orchestrator

VMware vSphere Integration Pack for System Center 2012 – Orchestrator

Integration Pack for System Center Configuration Manager

Integration Pack for System Center Data Protection Manager

Integration Pack for System Center Operations Manager

Integration Pack for System Center Service Manager

Integration Pack for System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 Release Candidate download Available

You can download System Center Orchestrator 2012 RC version here :

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27842

Overview

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The System Center Orchestrator 2012 Release Candidate provides the capability of automation of workflows (Runbooks) across other System Center and 3rd party products. These runbooks are created in the Runbook Designer, deployed via the Deployment manager and run and monitored locally or remotely via the Orchestrator Console.
Feature Summary:
As part of the release candidate we have delivered the following features:

• Install Experience
  • Improved prerequisite checks
  • Implementation of Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP), error reporting and interface with Microsoft Update
  • Allow user to log on as a service and select different service accounts for each service
  • Design Improvements( Error handling, port # for DB, increased logging, enabling log on as a service automatically)
  • UI Consistency between other System Center components
  • Time bomb(easy conversion from EVAL to licensed SKU)
• Security improvements
  • Encryption of DB connection
  • Encryption/decryption of passwords
• Globalization
  • Unicode capable
  • Convert SSH to Unicode
• Web service
  • Versioning
• Orchestration Console
  • Browse events
  • View events
  • UI Updates
• Bug fixes across all product features

The System Center Orchestrator 2012 Integration Toolkit contains wizard-based utilities for creating new activities and integration packs for System Center Orchestrator 2012. It also allows developers utilizing the Orchestrator SDK to create new custom integration packs for System Center Orchestrator 2012.
Feature Bullet Summary:
Orchestrator Integration Toolkit

• Rebranding, security enhancements, new generic activity icons
• Wizards can upgrade 6.3 activities and IPs to be compatible with Orchestrator
• Fixes issues with upgrading IPs multiple times
• Fixes issues with DLL / dependent file conflicts among different IPs

The System Center Orchestrator 2012 Release Candidate Integration Packs provides the capability to interface and control other existing System Center products through custom activities which are used to create runbooks.
System Center products supported:

• System Center 2007 Operations Manager
• System Center 2010 Service Manager
• System Center 2008 Virtual Machine Manager
• System Center 2010 Data Protection Manager
• System Center 2007 Configuration Manager

Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 and SCVMM proces

This screencast shows how orchestrator can work with System Center Virtual Machine Manager to create process around management of VMs.

Get your proces automated with Microsoft Opalis or in the nearby future with System Center Orchestrator 2012

All Microsoft Virtualization video from Data Center to Desktop

Here is a link to the Microsoft site where you can see all the virtualization solution videos of Microsoft.

Watch these free videos to learn more about Microsoft Virtualization whenever and from wherever you want—just click, listen, and learn. Start by clicking the picture above to learn more about the videos. You can then stream it or download to view offline.

Microsoft Integration Pack Opalis for System Center Virtual Machine Manager

This topic is about integration pack Opalis for System Center Virtual Machine Manager to automate the virtual environment on Hyper-V.

The Integration Pack for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is an add-in for Opalis Integration Server 6.3 and is
included in the Opalis 6.3 download.

The Integration Pack enables you to automate the following activities:

- Manage the self-service virtual machine library
- Create virtual machine resources such as disks, virtual hard disks (VHD)s, and network adapters, as needed
- Create virtual machines from templates, VHDs, and from other virtual machines (modifying disk and network resources if needed)
- Modify existing virtual machines
- Turn on and shut down virtual machines in batch mode
- Restart virtual machines
- Move virtual machines to a new host to manage availability and performance
- Create and restore virtual machine checkpoints

Virtual Machine Manager Integration Pack activities:

- Create Checkpoint
- Create Disk From VHD
- Create Network Adapter
- Create New Disk
- Create VM from Template
- Create VM from VHD
- Create VM from VM
- Get Checkpoint
- Get Disk
- Get Network Adapter
- Get VM
- Manage Checkpoint
- Move VM
- Remove VM
- Repair VM
- Resume VM
- Shut Down VM
- Start VM
- Stop VM
- Pause VM
- Update Disk
- Update Network Adapter
- Update VM

The Name System Center Opalis will be called in the nearby future :

You can find more information about Opalis here

Microsoft System Center Suite for dynamic datacenters

This topic is about getting a dynamic datacenter with the Microsoft System Center suite centrally managed and automated with workflows.

Core Datacenter Management Solutions

The System Center datacenter solutions described below are designed to help you build on top of your existing investments while transitioning to cloud computing.

• Optimize Service Delivery for Datacenter Infrastructure and Business-critical Services

  Using System Center and Windows Server Hyper-V, you can optimize your datacenter—including heterogeneous environments—to deliver highly available and performing services.

• Automate Datacenter Management Processes and Support Change and Compliance

  System Center enables IT organizations to improve their operational efficiency and compliance by delivering deep datacenter automation capabilities and solutions

• Deliver On-premises Private Cloud Computing Foundation

  The Microsoft Server platform, comprised of Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center, when combined with the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0, helps IT organizations extend their existing investments to deliver on-premises private cloud computing.

See also Datacenter virtualization & Management Whitepaper

Automated Hyper-V IS Upgrade with Opalis and VMM

Here is a 8 minute video about Opalis Automated workflow for upgrading integration Services for a Virtual Machine with SCVMM.

Enjoy and learn to make workflows automated !

Microsoft Multiple (resource) forest with the Cloud topology

This Topic is about Microsoft Multiple Forest sharing a resource forest in a Shared Service DataCenter wich is going to federate and colabrate with Microsoft Cloud services like Windows Azure and Microsoft Office 365.

Here is the high level design picture of this Microsoft technology topology :

We will use the following Microsoft products in this design :

• Microsoft Windows 2008R2 SP1 OS and domains.
• Microsoft Hyper-V R2 Clustering with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)
• Microsoft DPM 2010 for Disaster recovery
• Microsoft System Center for deploying
• Microsoft SCOM for monitoring
• Microsoft Fore Front Identity Managent 2010 for provisioning.
• Microsoft TMG and UAG 2010
• Microsoft Exchange 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010 with collabration mysite at Office 365
• Microsoft ForeFront protection
• And more ……….

Microsoft System Center suite 2012 ( SCVVM2012, SCCM2012, SCOM2012,DPM2012 etc ) will become RTM available at the
end of 2011 according to the Microsoft Roadmap at Hyper-V.nu  :

http://www.hyper-v.nu/archives/hvredevoort/2011/03/system-center-roadmap-2011/

Datacenter automation with Microsoft System Center Opalis in the future Orchestrator will become important to manage all processes in the system center suite.
Microsoft ForeFront Identity Management 2010 will provision the accounts from the resource forest to Multiple forest on-premises and in the cloud to Office 365 via federation (ADFS 2.0 ). A user account will have a unique account on this Microsoft topology design with single sign on and can work from Sharepoint 2010 portal ( On-premises / Office365 )

Microsoft Opalis Webcast – System Center Integration

Microsoft Opalis becomes System Center Orchestrator.
This System Center tool makes your datacenter dynamic by automation the workflow process.