anyweb Posted April 20, 2010 Report post Posted April 20, 2010 as I can't attend MMS I'm watching it live, luckily i can watch it on my plasma in the comfort of my sitting room ! if you are not watching it now then why not ? Bob is on stage right now http://www.studiosevent.com/newscenter/?id=mms cheers niall Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted April 20, 2010 Report post Posted April 20, 2010 here are some fairly random points I've taken from the Keynote: The Cloud So far there's been talk about The Cloud, Azure, Visual Studio 2010, DPM 2010, SCSM 2010 and more, 2000 servers in a container, cooled, wired to go, running bing and more in Chicago warehouse...claims 10x cost savings, Ops Manager "Bad things happen to good servers." Windows Server 2008 R2 clustering technology.."Business Demands More !" application virtualization, all of this is controlled and orchestrated by a model, App Model, code named 'M' in beta, dev tool. 10X faster to market Todays reality, System Center System Center Data Center - sneak peak abstraction, key feature of the cloud, business values, applications and services, using virtual machine manager, DAC db in server 2008, MSdeploy packages which will configure IIS... System Center VMM enabling the cloud, 'will manage the number of instance of the web, scale out as required by the load' deploy the app tier, server app-v, dynamically deploy server app right into, using a single os image, high performance storage... deployed by VMM - template for deploying servers, contose web store service Offline Patching virtual machines Patching the virtual machines, scanning for compliance, co-ordinate with wsus, offline scan the vhd, need patches or updates ?, requiring remidation, version the vhd and remidate (patch it) against a security baseline re-applies that server app image, update and patch hundreds of thousands of applications with the single click of a button, apply patches to 2000 bing servers, new images, big application image...offline patching to a VM always available, multiple segments of the datacenter, same thing as Microsoft are doing with Azure The Gap manage the gap with system center , think about the applications, the whole environment, the identity, the private and public clouds... Moving data into the public cloud, exists in databases, encrypted, compliance ? services above the virtualization layer, scale out services, models to be driving, how services are managed across all of this... some will connect into these public clouds, new tools, old tools to manage your data center, gap between private and public cloud, full out stack to think about, coordination between industry, cooperation with you Windows Azure Monitor your apps, seemlessly, Windows Azure, familiar application, familiar view, provided by operations manager, webstore app, help of management packs to discover all the components Web front end hosted entirely on Windows Azure, lot of load being placed on this application, might be impacting the sla's, watching the apps with operations manager... Windows Azure intrumentation, performance view in Operations Manager native in windows azure, management pack for ops manager that connects to windows azure what to do to remediate this ? add additional webroles in azure, make it easy to do in ops mgr, this task supplied by the management pack, new instances of the app being added in windows azure, scaling applications seemlesly, easily with help of ops mgr, dynamic IT step by Step the needs of IT from an overall perspective Microsofts route, security and management, applications, platform, think holisticly, identity, underlying platform for the middle tier services, the database, running sql server today is one of the more expensive parts, sql azure, thousands of servers spanning 6 data centers, how to move forward into the cloud of the future Everything moves faster in the cloud Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...