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MMS 2009 Keynote – The Dynamic Datacenter

This year is the 10th anniversary of the Microsoft Management Summit. On Tuesday the 28th of April Microsoft Delivered the keynote for MMS 2009.

The keynote was presented by Bob Kelly, Vice president of Server and Tools at Microsoft and covered several topics and showed several demo’s:

• The Dynamic Datacenter and Cloud Computing
• Public, private clouds and federation between them
• Server Application Virtualization using System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• Announcing System Center Operations Manager R2 release within 30 days
• Announcing the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit for Hosting companies as from today
• Announcing the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit for Enterprises within 90 days
• SCVMM R2 will be released 60 days after Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM’s
• SCVMM will have the ability to add public cloud resources from the cloud in the future



Microsoft’s vision on cloud computing

Microsoft believes that there will be 2 kinds of clouds, the public clouds and the private clouds. Eventually MS believes that in the public cloud market there will be 3 to 4 large suppliers and by providing consistent API’s interaction between those clouds will be possible. Therefore MS already has 3 large datacenters on which they host their public cloud infrastructure which is called Windows Azure. For interaction with other clouds, MS cooperates in the DMTF cloud initiative.

Companies will have their own private clouds, which eventually is the next version of the datacenter. Companies can already start with building their private clouds by massively starting to virtualize their servers. Bob mentioned that private clouds are not a massive revolution, it’s just the next step where abstraction is a keyword.

The private and public clouds will be connected so that applications within a corporation can take advantage of information on the public cloud for example.

Cloud computing is actually a next step in the Dynamic Datacenter vision which started with the Dynamic System Initiative(DSI) a couple of years ago. Where the platform is delivered as a service, and terms like reliable, predictable and automated come in.

In order to help Hosting Providers and Enterprises with realizing cloud computing MS announced the release of the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit. The one for hosting companies as of today and the one for Enterprises within 90 days. The Toolkit features guides, reference architectures and diagrams.

Windows Server R2

Bob did say that the Release Candidate of Windows Server 2008 R2 is expected at the same time as the RC for Windows 7. (Which could be any day now). Some facts on Windows Server R2:
• 32 logical processors
• Live migration for Hyper-V
• Remote Desktop Services (rich VDI)
• IIS 7.5
• .Net on Server Core
• R2 will be the most power aware OS in history
• Powershell 2.0

System Center Virtual Machine Manager R2

Bob announced that SCVMM R2 will be delivered within 60 days after Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM’s. Some facts:
• Automated Live Migration
• PRO management packs
• Maintenance Mode VM Migration
• Hot Storage Capacity Management
• VM Network Optimization
• SAN Cluster Migration
• Multiple VMs per LUN
• Clustered File System Support (CSV)

Future features of System Center Virtual Machine manager

Some new features of SCVMM were demo’d. The demo by Bill Morein was around Application Virtualization for Server Applications. (APP-V for Server applications). The demo showed how SCVMM was used to push an application (as an image) to a server. Later the Application was removed temporarily removed from the OS, the OS was removed and replaced the latest build version of that OS and afterwards the application was put back on the OS. All initiated from SCVMM.

A second demo showed how resources from a public cloud were integrated into SCVMM using the add public resource feature. The demo even showed a live migration between the public and the private cloud.

System Center Operations Manager R2

Bob Kelly announced that SCOM R2 will RTM within 30 days from today. System Center Operations Manager R2 will feature:
• Service level monitoring
• Visio integration
• Performance dashboards (Dundas Gauges)
• Linux/Unix Support
• Common Discovery
• PRO Partners
• Cross-platform Management Packs
• Hardware Management

Microsoft also showed the new Visio add-in capabilities, which they announced last week. And also some of the Power budget throttling capabilities where you can baseline power consumption.
Noticeable difference in SCOM R2 is that the console is much faster compared to SCOM.

My personal thoughts:
No word on System Center Configuration Manager, gladly after the keynote there was a SCCM state of the Union session with details on SCCM v.Next.

Why integrate the App-V for server applications into SCVMM and not in SCCM? How about deploying App-V server applications to physical machines.

SCVMM has lots in store for the future, so keep a close eye on that product.

The whole cloud computing stuff are just buzzwords, the whole dynamic datacenter story still stands, only now it’s coupled with cloud computing. The vision from a couple of years ago is still there.

Links:
Kelly Sees Economy, Flexibility Driving Cloud Computing Adoption
Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimization
MMS 2009 Website
IT Infrastructure Software Spotlight

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