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AutomationHow to make my IT life easier

Christopher Keyaert

Consultant at Inovativ

Cloud

and DataCenter Management MVP

About Me

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KeyaertC

Christopher Keyaert

IT Consultant for INOVATIV

System Center Cloud and

Datacenter Management

Agenda

Automation

Orchestrator

Service Management Automation

Orchestrator VS SMA

Conclusion

Automation

Process automation that simplifies cloud management

Integration Integrate into existing systems with PowerShell integration modulesBuild additional PS modules to enable integrating into other systems

OrchestrationAccelerate time to value with flexible process workflowsImprove service reliability across multiple tools, systems, and department silos

AutomationEnable Cloud providers to focus on work that adds business valueReduce error-prone manual activities while lowering costs

Optimize and extend existing investments

Deliver flexible and reliable services

Lower costs and improve predictability

Automation

Include the right people

You NEED to include people who understand process and technology

This is a strategic and tactical tool.

Examples of people to include…

Service Desk manager

System Center technology lead

IT Leadership

Including the right people = success

Decisions – Which process automate ?

What work process has the biggest payoff?

… will my customers notice the difference?

… how am I articulating the value?

Incident Management (symptom management)

Service Request Management (Move, Add, Change)

Change Management (IT Changes)

Risk and Compliance (Operations)

PLAN TO TRANSFORM PROCESSES…

A great tool doesn’t make a bad process better…

Transform the processes

Work it out in a worksheet ahead of time

Look at the end result

Set the vision

Orchestrator

System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2

What is Orchestrator

Automate processes in your data center, regardless of hardware or platform.

Automate

your IT operations and standardize best practices to improve operational efficiency.

Connect

different systems from different vendors without having to know how to use scripting and programming languages.

Orchestrator Architecture

Automation by Runbooks

Orchestrator - Demo

Service Management Automation

Aka SMA

What is SMA ?

Run

and manage

runbooks

to integrate, orchestrate, and automate IT business processes.

Set

of tools that is integrated as the Automation extension in Windows Azure Pack for Windows

Server.

Runbooks

run on the Windows PowerShell workflow engine.

SMA Components

Web service

Connects to Windows Azure Pack

Distributes

runbook

jobs to

runbook

workers

Supports HTTPS

Enables security group to control access

Runbook

worker

Executes

runbook

jobs

Runs under a service account

PowerShell

module

Enables Automation management by using Windows PowerShell

cmdlets

SMA Architecture

Creation a SMA Runbook

Automation by Runbooks

Automation by Runbooks (2)

SMA - Demo

Orchestrator VS SMA

Should I use Orchestrator or SMA?

Orchestrator

Automate business processes and IT operations in your data center without scripting or programming.You can also use PowerShell cmdlets to run other System Center 2012 components/Cmdlets.Let you use integration packs that are not covered by PowerShell. (Example : Leveraging Service Manager)

SMA

“new future way” of building

Runbooks

based on PowerShell Workflow.

Automate

processes within the Windows Azure

Pack

. (

Runbooks

for tenants /

admins)

Runs Windows PowerShell workflows, you can also use PowerShell

cmdlets

to run other System Center 2012

components/

Cmdlets

.

P

rovides

64bit support with PowerShell workflow

Orchestrator VS SMA

The death of Orchestrator has been greatly over exaggerated.They are definitely separate solutions in the same “ISO”.

Conclusion

Automation is Awesome !!

Including the right people = success

A great tool doesn’t make a bad process better

Phase and Manage scope

Don’t try to bite off the whole thing at once

Succeed end-to-end on each process

List off

features, move

other features to next

phases

Something ALWAYS comes up… plan for

that

Determine your ROI for your requests

Deploy automations which benefit your business

Orchestrator - References

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2013/09/18/free-ebook-system-center-designing-orchestrator-runbooks.aspx

http://www.amazon.fr/System-Center-2012-Orchestrator-Unleashed/dp/0672336103/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383428735&sr=8-1&keywords=orchestrator+unleashed

SMA - Links

Introduction to Service Management Automation

http://

blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/08/09/automation-an-introduction-to-service-management-automation.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/tags/intro+to+sma

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TechNet Library

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn469258.aspx

Questions

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Microsoft - Links

Download the Evaluation: Windows Server 2012 R2Download the Evaluation: Microsoft System Center 2012 R2Microsoft Virtual Academy

Thank you !!!