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System Center 2022 includes:

• System Center Operations Manager: Monitor health, capacity, and usage across applications, workloads, and infrastructure.
• System Center Orchestrator: Automate your datacenter tasks; efficiently create and execute runbooks using native PowerShell scripts.
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager: Deploy and manage your virtualized, software-defined datacenter with a comprehensive solution for networking, storage, compute, and security.
• System Center Service Manager: Automated service delivery tool for incident resolution, change control, and asset lifecycle management.
• System Center Data Protection Manager*: Protect your data with backup, storage, and recovery for private cloud deployments, physical machines, clients, and server applications.

*System Center Data Protection Manager will be available on a later date on May 1st, 2022.

Need more information about the next version of System Center? Visit the System Center product site.

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What’s new in System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Deploy and manage Azure Stack HCI clusters in VMM

Set up an SDN network controller in the VMM fabric

#Microsoft System Center 2019 GA – Whats New #Sysctr #SCVMM #SCOM #SCDPM #Azure

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Hybrid Integration

As enterprise environments now span on-premises to the cloud, customers look to leverage the innovation in Azure services using their on-premises tools. To enable this, Microsoft has integrated System Center with a set of management services in Azure to augment the on-premises tools.

• With Service Map integration with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), you can automatically create distributed application diagrams in Operations Manager (OM) that are based on the dynamic dependency maps in Service Map.
• With Azure Management Pack, you can now view perf and alert metrics in SCOM, integrate with web application monitoring in Application Insights, and monitor more PaaS services, such as Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Factory, etc.
• Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2019 enables simplified patching of VMs by integrating with Azure Update Management.

What is New in Microsoft System Center 2019

Read here what is new on Microsoft System Center 2019 for your IT Management :

New features in VMM 2019
See the following sections for detailed information about the new features/feature updates supported in VMM 2019.
System Center 2019 – Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) supports rolling upgrade of a Hyper-V host cluster from Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2019. Versions earlier to VMM 2019 supports rolling upgrade to 2016 from 2012 R2 This article provides the upgrade information for System Center 2019 – Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).

New features in DPM 2019
See the following sections for detailed information about the new features/feature updates supported in DPM 2019.

Modern Backup Storage (MBS) was introduced in System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2016 to deliver 50% storage savings, 3X faster backups, and more efficient, workload-aware storage. DPM 2019 introduces further performance improvements with MBS resulting in 50-70% faster backup with Windows Server 2019. This article provides the upgrade information for System Center 2019 – Data Protection Manager (DPM). 

New features in Operations Manager 2019
See the following sections for detailed information about the new and updated features in System Center 2019 – Operations Manager. Features and updates introduced in Operations Manager version 1801 and 1807 are included in version 2019. Plan your Upgrade to SCOM 2019

Service Map integration
Service Map automatically discovers application components on Windows and Linux systems and maps the communication between services. It automatically builds a common reference map of dependencies across your servers, processes, and third-party services. Integration between Service Map and System Center Operations Manager allows you to automatically create distributed application diagrams in Operations Manager that are based on the dynamic dependency maps in Service Map.

System Center Configuration Manager Documentation

New in System Center Orchestrator

New in System Center Service Manager

New in System Center Service Management Automation

New in System Center Service Provider Foundation

What is New in Microsoft System Center version 1801 #Sysctr #SCOM #SCVMM #SCDPM

What is New in Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager version 1801 ?

• Nested virtualization
• Migration of VMware VM (EFI firmware-based VM) to Hyper-V VM
• Performance improvement in host refresher
• Enhanced console session in VMM

Networking :

• Configuration of guest clusters in SDN through VMM
• Configuration of SLB VIPs through VMM service templates
• Configuration of encrypted VM networks through VMM

Security :

• Support to Linux shielded VM
• Configuration of fallback HGS

Azure Integration :

• Management of ARM-based and region-specific Azure subscriptions

SCVMM 1801 supports management of ARM-based VMs, Azure Active Directory (AD) based authentication that is created by using the new Azure portal and region-specific Azure subscriptions (namely, Germany, China, US Government Azure regions).

Download here System Center Virtual Machine Manager version 1801 VHD

What is New in System Center Data Protection Manager version 1801 ?

The following features are either new to DPM, or are improved for DPM 2016.

Modern Backup Storage – Using Resilient File System (ReFS) block-cloning technology to store incremental backups, DPM 2016 dramatically improves storage utilization and performance. The storage consumed by backups grows and shrinks with the production data source, and there is no over-allocation of storage.
Resilient change tracking (RCT) – DPM uses RCT (the native change tracking in Hyper-V), which removes the need for time-consuming consistency checks. RCT provides better resiliency than the change tracking provided by VSS snapshot-based backups. DPM also uses RCT for incremental backup. It identifies VHD changes for virtual machines, and transfers only those blocks that are indicated by the change tracker.
Continued protection during cluster aware updates – Windows Server 2016 comes with the cluster OS rolling update, where a cluster can be upgraded to Windows Server 2016 without bringing it down. DPM 2016 continues to protect VMs during the upgrade, maintaining the backup service level agreement (SLA).
Shielded VM Backups – Shielded VMs in Windows Server 2016 help protect sensitive VMs from inspection, tampering, and data theft by malware and malicious administrators. DPM 2016 backups retain the protections provided by shielded VMs to ensure they can be recovered seamlessly and securely.
Hyper-V with Storage Spaces Direct – DPM recognizes and protects Hyper-V VMs deployed on Storage Spaces Direct, delivering seamless backup and recovery of VMs in disaggregated and hyper-converged scenarios.
Hyper-V with ReFS SOFS Cluster – DPM 2016 can back up Hyper-V VMs deployed on ReFS-based SOFS clusters. Backup and recovery of RCT-based VMs and non-RCT VMs is supported.
Upgrading a DPM production server to 2016 doesn’t require a reboot – When you upgrade to DPM 2016, you are not required to reboot the production server. To avoid rebooting the production server, upgrade to DPM 2016 and upgrade the DPM agent on the production servers. Backups continue and you reboot the production server when you want.

DPM to Azure Backup Vault.

Download here System Center Data Protection Manager version 1801 VHD

What is New in System Center Operations Manager version 1801 ?

• Enter product key from the Operation Console
• Linux monitoring
• Improved HTML5 dashboarding experience
• System Center Visual Studio Authoring Extension (VSAE) support for Visual Studio 2017
• Enhanced SDK Client performance
• Updates and recommendations for third-party Management Packs
• Linux Kerberos support
• Service Map integration

Microsoft Service Map automatically discovers application components on Windows and Linux systems and maps the communication between services. It automatically builds a common reference map of dependencies across your servers, processes, and third-party services. Integration between Service Map and System Center Operations Manager allows you to automatically create distributed application diagrams in Operations Manager that are based on the dynamic dependency maps in Service Map.

The Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Team published a great blogpost on the New SCOM Web Console version 1801

Download here System Center Operations Manager version 1801 VHD

Download here System Center Orchestrator version 1801 VHD

Download here System Center Service Manager version 1801 VHD

 

Here you find more information about System Center version 1801

Test today the new features of System Center version 1801 with the Evaluation VHD’s 😉

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Jeff Woolsey in action Talking about Windows Server 2016 Security and Containers
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Of course It’s a tradition that @ClusterMVP & @WSV_GUY  & @Jamesvandenberg are on a Picture 😉
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#MVPbuzz Time with Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions at the Microsoft Tech Summit 2017
Great questions and feedback on Microsoft :

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Microsoft Tech Summit 2016-17

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What’s new in System Center 2016 #Sysctr #SCVMM #SCOM #SCDPM

What’s New in System Center 2016 Whitepaper

What’s new topics

What’s new in DPM

What’s new in Operations Manager

What’s new in Service Manager

What’s new in SMA

What’s new in VMM

Deploying Storage Spaces Direct with #SCVMM #S2D #Hyperv

Storage Spaces Direct in SCVMM

Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview introduces Storage Spaces Direct, which enables building highly available storage systems with local storage. Then, this storage can be leveraged by VM”s running on the same cluster (hyperconverged deployment) or the storage can be exported as a File Share (disaggregated deployment). The hyper-converged deployment scenario has the Hyper-V (compute) and Storage Spaces Direct (storage) components on the same cluster. Virtual machine’s files are stored on local CSVs. This allows for simultaneously scaling both Hyper-V compute clusters and the storage it is using. Once Storage Spaces Direct is configured and the CSV volumes are available, configuring and provisioning Hyper-V is the same process and uses the same tools that you would use with any other Hyper-V deployment on a failover cluster

Here you can read the Complete Document about Deploying Storage Spaces Direct with VMM

Guarded Fabric Deployment Guide for Windows Server 2016 TP5 #Winserv #SCVMM #Hyperv #HGS

This document provides guidance for deploying guarded hosts and shielded virtual machines (VMs). The systems described in this document must run:

• Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5 (build #14300)
• Optionally, a fabric management system such as Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) in System Center 2016 Technical Preview 5.

This document provides guidance for the deployment of a guarded fabric, that is, the Host Guardian Service (HGS) plus guarded hosts, on which shielded VMs can run. With a guarded fabric, hosting providers and private cloud operators can offer their tenant administrators greater protections for tenant virtual machines, decreasing the risks from malware or from compromised storage, networks, and host administrators. You should consider a guarded fabric as one element in your overall security strategy.

Here you can download The Guarded Fabric Deployment Guide for Windows Server 2016 TP5

Step-by-step Guide for deploying a SDNv2 using #SCVMM TP5 Blogpost Series

This topic helps you evaluate the Software Defined Networking (SDN) features available with Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5. In particular, it focuses on using Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2016 Technical Preview 5 to deploy a highly available three-node network controller; a new SDN capability in Windows Server Technical Preview. The network controller is a scalable and highly available server role that enables you to automate network infrastructure configuration instead of performing manual network device configuration.

Here you find the Awesome blogposts of Microsoft Program Manager Larry Zhang :

Step-by-step Guide for deploying a SDNv2 using SCVMM TP5 – Part 1

Step-by-step Guide for deploying a SDNv2 using SCVMM TP5 – Part 2

Step-by-step Guide for deploying a SDNv2 using SCVMM TP5 – Part 3

Step-by-Step Guide for deploying a SDNv2 using SCVMM TP5 – Part 4

#Microsoft System Center 2016 TP5 VHD’s Available for Download #Sysctr #SCVMM #SCOM

This VHD’s enables System Center customers to evaluate System Center 2016 Technical Preview 5 and Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5.

System Center 2016 Technical Preview 5 VHD’s are on the following locations:

•System Center Technical Preview 5 Data Protection Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
•System Center Technical Preview 5 Operations Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
•System Center Technical Preview 5 Orchestrator – Evaluation (VHD)
•System Center Technical Preview 5 Service Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
•System Center Technical Preview 5 Virtual Machine Manager – Evaluation (VHD)

#Microsoft #Linux Integration Services Version 4.1 for #HyperV Available

Linux Integration Services (LIS) 4.1 allows Linux guests to use Hyper-V virtualization on the following host operating systems:

 Windows Server 2008 R2 (applicable editions)

 Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

 Windows 8 Pro and 8.1 Pro

 Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2

 Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 and 2012 R2

 Windows Server Technical Preview

 Microsoft Hyper-V Server Technical Preview

 Microsoft Azure.

Current version: 4.1.0 Please refer to the Linux Virtual Machines on Hyper-V topics for up to date information on the LIS feature set, all supported Linux distributions, availability and download locations.

New with Linux Integration Services 4.1:

•Expanded Releases: now applicable to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Oracle Linux with Red Hat Compatible Kernel versions 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 7.2.

•Hyper-V Sockets.
•Manual Memory Hot Add.
•SCSI WNN.
•lsvmbus.
•Uninstallation scripts.

When installed in a supported Linux virtual machine running on Hyper-V, the Linux Integration Services provide:

•Driver support: Linux Integration Services supports the network controller and the IDE and SCSI storage controllers that were developed specifically for Hyper-V.

•Fastpath Boot Support for Hyper-V: Boot devices now take advantage of the block Virtualization Service Client (VSC) to provide enhanced performance.

•Time Keeping: The clock inside the virtual machine will remain accurate by synchronizing to the clock on the virtualization server via Timesync service, and with the help of the pluggable time source device.

•Integrated Shutdown: Virtual machines running Linux can be shut down from either Hyper-V Manager or System Center Virtual Machine Manager by using the “Shut down” command.

•Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) Support: Supported Linux distributions can use multiple virtual processors per virtual machine. The actual number of virtual processors that can be allocated to a virtual machine is only limited by the underlying hypervisor.

•Heartbeat: This feature allows the virtualization server to detect whether the virtual machine is running and responsive.

•KVP (Key Value Pair) Exchange: Information about the running Linux virtual machine can be obtained by using the Key Value Pair exchange functionality on the Windows Server 2008 virtualization server.

•Integrated Mouse Support: Linux Integration Services provides full mouse support for Linux guest virtual machines.

•Live Migration: Linux virtual machines can undergo live migration for load balancing purposes.

•Jumbo Frames: Linux virtual machines can be configured to use Ethernet frames with more than 1500 bytes of payload.

•VLAN tagging and trunking: Administrators can attach single or multiple VLAN ids to synthetic network adapters.

•Static IP Injection: Allows migration of Linux virtual machines with static IP addresses.

•Linux VHDX resize: Allows dynamic resizing of VHDX storage attached to a Linux virtual machine.

•Synthetic Fibre Channel Support: Linux virtual machines can natively access high performance SAN networks.

•Live Linux virtual machine backup support: Facilitates zero downtime backup of running Linux virtual machines.

•Dynamic memory ballooning support: Improves Linux virtual machine density for a given Hyper-V host.

•Synthetic video device support: Provides improved graphics performance for Linux virtual machines.

•PAE kernel support: Provides drivers that are compatible with PAE enabled Linux virtual machines.

Here you can download Linux Integration Services Version 4.1 for Hyper-V