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Service Templates in SCVMM 2012 R2
Florin LoghiadeIT Consultant
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• What’s a service template?
• What’s new?
• Usable scenarios.
• Exporting and importing the templates.
• Benefits and limitations.
Agenda
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• It’s a “blueprint” for deploying applications.
• Offers repeatable and rapid deployment of
applications.
• It can be simple or as complex as you want.
• Offers scale-out possibilities.
• Works on multiple hypervisor environments
What’s a service template?
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1-Tier Service
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4-Tier Service
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• Services templates in SCVMM 2012 were
“unfinished”.
• Not limited to the Microsoft stack.
• Finer grained deployment methods.
Why now?
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• Service templates now have
– More script command types
– Powershell script block for script applications
– Deployment order
What’s new?
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DemoHow to build a service template
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• Use Service Templates to deploy:
– Exchange 2013
– Lync 2013
– Sharepoint 2013
– Guest SQL Clusters
– Complex business applications with web, business logic
and database tiers.
Usable scenarios
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DemoScaling out a service
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• Create in a test environment
• Can export all attached resources, some of them or
none.
• Sensitive data can be encrypted.
• Can remap resources.
Exporting/Importing a template
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DemoExporting and importing a service template
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• Manage deployed VM’s as a single unit
• Can set upgrade domains for easy servicing
• Not limited to the Microsoft stack
• Can be deployed in multiple hypervisor
environments
• Deploy as many times as you want, avoiding human
error
Benefits
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• Limited options for deploying Linux VM’s.
• Works only with applications that can be installed
silently and unattended.
Limitations
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• What are service templates.
• When should we use them.
• How to author a service template.
• Benefits and limitations.
Summary
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• SCVMM 2012 R2 Evaluation download link– http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn205295.aspx
• Service models - Web Platform Installer– http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/08/30/application-
management-system-center-and-the-web-platform-installer-webpi.aspx
Resources
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Q & A
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• Install SCVMM 2012 R2 in a test environment.
• Design a service template.
• Start with simple deployments scale towards complex.
What’s next
