Microsoft Really Loves Linux – a Virtual Love Story

Microsoft Really Loves Linux – a Virtual Love StoryChristian HeitkampChristian.Heitkamp@nice.de

Christian HeitkampProduct Manager and lead developer for System Center and Azure solutions at NiCE IT Management Solutions

“An open operating system may have side-effects…”

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Microsoft ♥ Linux

… 17 years later

Linux in System Center: increasing momentum

Linux/UNIX In OpsMgr

Initial development

JEE in OpsMgr

Linux/UNIX in ConfigMgr

Linux in VMM

Linux in DPM

Apache and MySQL in OpsMgr

ShippingPreview

2008 2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2015

2014

2016

OMS Linux agent

2017

FluentD extnesions

Linux Momentum at MicrosoftMember of the

Linux Foundation

(2016)Most GitHub Contributions

(2016)

Most Linux Kernel Commits

(2014)

>25% of Azure VMs are on

Linux (2017)

Credit: Wikimedia

Some example• PowerShell on Linux• Linux integration service (LIS)• DSC for Linux• LAMP Stack Monitoring (OMS, SCOM)• Bash on Windows (WSL)• SQL Server on Linux

Supported operating systems Operations Manager Configuration Manager

Hyper-V, Operations Manager Azure IaaS, Virtual Machine Manager, Configuration Manager, Endpoint Protection

Version 4 (x86/x64)Version 5.1 (x86/x64)Version 6 (x86/x64)Version 7 (x86/x64)

Red Hat, Enterprise, Linux

Version 9 (x86)Version 10 (x86/x64)Version 11 (x86/x64)Version 12 (x64)

SUSE, Linux, Enterprise server

Version 5 (x86/x64)Version 6 (x86/x64)Version 7 (x86/x64)

CentOS

Version 5 (x86/x64)Version 6 (x86/x64)Version 7 (x86/x64)Version 8 (x86/x64)Debian

Version 12.04 LTS (x86/x64)Version 14.04 LTS (x86/x64)Version 14.10 (x86/x64)Version 15.04 (x86/x64)Version 16.04 (x86/x64)

Ubuntu server

Version 5 (x86/x64)Version 6 (x86/x64)Version 7 (x64)

Oracle, Linux

Version 5.3 (Power)Version 6.1 (Power)Version 7.1 (Power)AIX

Version 11iv2 (PA-RISC/IA64)Version 11iv3 (IA64)HP-UX

Version 9 (SPARC)Version 10 (SPARC/x86)Version 11 (SPARC/x86)Solaris

Linux on Windows

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Who needs this?- Education- Port from Linux to Windows (dev

sandbox)- Remote login to Linux/UNIX- Bring Linux utilities and sources to your

system

When did Microsoft start this?- Since first release! The Windows NT

kernel supported running POSIX, OS/2 subsystems since it first release.

- Evolved over time

How do I get it?- You have it already if…- … you Windows 10 is OS Build

10.0.14393 (anniversary update, Version 1608)

- All client versions (Home, Pro, Enterprise)

How to activate? (1/2)

How to activate (2/2)

Linux on Windows LIVE!

How is the performance?• Great for

• video encoding benchmark• CPU bound workloads

• Not so good for• Compile• IO/Disk

• “From a performance perspective, CPU and Network bound processes will perform nearly identically in Ubuntu on Windows, as native Ubuntu on bare metal. “

Details:Michael Larabel, principal of http://Phoronix.comDusting Kirkland (Howdy, Ubuntu on Windows! How Fast Is It?)

SQL Server on Linux

SQL Server on Linux / CTPHistory

CTP 1.0 November 2016CTP 1.1 December 2016CTP 1.2 January 2017CTP 1.3 February 2017

How to I get it?Platform Supported version(s)Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v12 SP2Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10Docker Engine 1.8+

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-vnext-including-Linux

Installation on RHEL- Install

- Via repository download- RPM Package

- Configuration- Password & Setup

- Script: http://tinyurl.com/EL-KL-2017

DEMO SQL Server on

Linux

DEMO SQL Server on

Linux Management Pack

SQL Server MP TP2 System Center Management Pack for SQL Server vNextAvailable for Windows and Linux!

DEMO SQL Server MP –

for Linux

DEMO MSSQL DB

Migration to Linux

Further Database MPs• Microsoft MySQL

MP• Microsoft Apache

MP• Microsoft SQL

Server

• NiCE Oracle MP• NiCE DB2 MP• OZSoft HANA MP• OpsLogix Oracle MP• OZSoft ASE MP (Sybase)

Are customers using this?Customer Case on Linux, UNIX and Windows: 32,000 Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers monitored with System Center

https://customers.microsoft.com/en-US/story/firm-improves-it-services-to-banks-with-centralized-monitoring-solution

Questions?Visit us at the booth!

And one last thing:NiCE is announceing today:TP program for a Management Pack for Microsoft Office 365!

Thank You

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