70-246: Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Course 01 – System Center 2012
70-246: Monitoring and Operating a
Private Cloud with System Center 2012
Course 01 – System Center 2012
Slide 1
System Center 2012
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Slide 2
What is System Center 2012?
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Slide 3
Suite of Management Toolso Can all be installed, or individual components
Operations Manager
Configuration Manager
Service Manager
Orchestrator
Data Protection Manager
Virtual Machine Manager
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It’s licensed as a full suite but components can be installed individually
No longer managing multiple servers or databases
Cross-integration benefits
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Slide 5
Monitoring of on-going health
Technology overview
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Imaging, updating, upgrading capabilities
Technology overview
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Management of process and change control
Technology overview
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Slide 8
Runbook automation tool
Technology overview
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Slide 9
Protecting data through specialized backup capabilities
Technology overview
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Slide 10
Hyper-V host management
Technology overview
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Slide 12
What is System Center 2012?
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Review Questions:
1. What is the overall focus of Operations Manager?
A. Imaging, updating, upgrading
B. Monitoring of on-going health
C. Protecting data through backup utilities
D. Managing Hyper-V hosts
2. True or False: Configuration Manager 2012 is still sold as a separate component.
A. True
B. False
3. Which System Center 2012 component can watch the processes, memory and
CPU usage on a managed server?
A. Orchestrator
B. Operations Manager
C. VMM
D. Configuration Manager
4. Which System Center 2012 component is used to automate actions to be taken
depending on alerts?
A. Orchestrator
B. Configuration Manager
C. Operations Manager
D. VMM
5. Which System Center component would you use to monitor SLAs?
A. Orchestrator
B. Service Manager
C. Operations Manager
D. VMM
6. What System Center component would you use to protect a server through back-
ups?
A. Orchestrator
B. VMM
C. DPM
D. Operations Manager
Answer Key:
1. B
The overall focus of Operations Manager is the monitoring of on-going health.
2. B
False. All components are now sold as a single package. This is known as
System Center 2012, and you choose which components to use.
3. B
Operations Manager was designed to watch the health of managed objects,
which includes servers.
4. A
Even though each component can respond, an action in a Runbook on
Orchestrator makes the coordinated actions.
5. B
The Service Manager can monitor the status of defined SLAs.
6. C
The Data Protection Manager is used to perform scheduled and secured
backups to selected management targets.