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 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.
Collaborative software development tools for the entire team
Previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS), Azure DevOps Server is a set of collaborative software development tools, hosted on-premises. Azure DevOps Server integrates with your existing IDE or editor, enabling your cross-functional team to work effectively on projects of all sizes.
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers. Service Fabric also addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud native applications. Developers and administrators can avoid complex infrastructure problems and focus on implementing mission-critical, demanding workloads that are scalable, reliable, and manageable. Service Fabric represents the next-generation platform for building and managing these enterprise-class, tier-1, cloud-scale applications running in containers.
In the following Step-by-Step Guide I created a Standalone Microsoft Azure Service Fabric Cluster
on Windows Server 2019 Insiders Preview for DevOps testing :
Several sample cluster configuration files are installed with the setup package. ClusterConfig.Unsecure.DevCluster.json is the simplest cluster configuration: an unsecure, three-node cluster running on a single computer. Other config files describe single or multi-machine clusters secured with X.509 certificates or Windows security. You don’t need to modify any of the default config settings for this tutorial, but look through the config file and get familiar with the settings.
I made the Unsecure three-node Cluster running on Windows Server 2019 Insiders Preview in my MVPLAB.
Open Powershell in Administrator modus and run the Script :
Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) is an open-source tool for inspecting and managing Azure Service Fabric clusters. Service Fabric Explorer is a desktop application for Windows, macOS and Linux.
I Installed Azure Service Fabric Explorer to visualize the Cluster.
Here we got Azure Service Fabric 3-Node Cluster running on Windows Server 2019 Insiders
Azure Service Fabric CLI
The Azure Service Fabric command-line interface (CLI) is a command-line utility for interacting with and managing Service Fabric entities. The Service Fabric CLI can be used with either Windows or Linux clusters. The Service Fabric CLI runs on any platform where Python is supported.
Prior to installation, make sure your environment has both Python and pip installed. The CLI supports Python versions 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7. Python 3.x is the recommended version, since Python 2.7 will reach end of support soon.
Check the Python version and the Pip version by typing :
python –version
Pip –version
The Pip version which is delivered via Python has to be updated with the following command :
python -m pip install –upgrade pip
We now have pip version 18.0 instead of 10.0.1
Installing Service Fabric CLI by command :
pip install -I sfctl
Done ! Service Fabric CLI is installed on my Windows 10 Surface.
sfctl -h
Now we have installed Microsoft Azure Service Fabric Cluster on Windows Server 2019 Insiders Preview and the Service Fabric CLI on Windows 10, we now can connect to the 3-node Fabric Cluster via CLI.
Because we are working under Windows 10 and not on the host itself we have to set an endpoint connection :
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise and Service Fabric SDK
As a Developer or DevOps you like to work from Microsoft Visual Studio to deploy your Apps, Microservices or Containers to the Azure Service Fabric Cluster.
You need to install the Service Fabric SDK in Visual Studio before you can deploy :
Select Service Fabric Application at New Project
Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise : Service Fabric SDK must be installed
Installing Microsoft Azure Service Fabric SDK
Done.
Now you can make your Service Fabric Container.
Happy Developing 😉
More information on Microsoft Azure Service Fabric Cluster :
Windows Insider Program for Server allows you deploy the Windows Server 2019 Insider Preview builds in your enterprise. The docs cover the new enterprise features we’d like you to test and describes how to do the most common tasks.
To allow the Windows Admin Center gateway to communicate with Azure to leverage Azure Active Directory authentication for gateway access, or to create Azure resources on your behalf (for example, to protect VMs managed in Windows Admin Center using Azure Site Recovery), you will need to first register your Windows Admin Center gateway with Azure. You only need to do this once for your Windows Admin Center gateway – the setting is preserved when you update your gateway to a newer version.
In the following Step-by-Step Guide you will connect Windows Admin Center to your Microsoft Azure Subscription.
From here you have to copy the device Code and hit the Link device login ( https://aka.ms/devicelogin )
This will make the connection between Windows Admin Center and your Azure Subscription.
Paste the Code into here and Click on Continue.
Sign in your Azure Subscription.
From here you are connected to your Azure Subscription.
Select the right Azure Tenant and Click on Register.
Go to the Azure AD App Registration link.
Click on Settings
Click on Required Permissions and then on Grant permissions
Click on Yes.
Windows Admin Center has now Permission.
Microsoft Windows Admin Center (WAC) Gateway is now registered to your Azure Subscription and you can use Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication and Azure Site Recovery to protect your Virtual Machines with WAC.
IMPORTANT : Before you can add Microsoft Azure VM’s to Windows Admin Center, you have to set the Azure Network Firewall portal settings and also the Microsoft Windows OS Firewall of the VM.
Networking Settings of the Azure VM.
Open for http WAC port 5985 and for https 5986.
To make the port more Secure you have these Options in the Firewall rule.
Now you have done this for Azure Networking in the portal, you have to do the same in the Firewall settings of the Virtual Machine Inside.
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