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Upcoming System Center 2012 Webcast Series: Bare Metal to Private Cloud

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This webcast series will show you some of the best practices and process for getting started with your System Center 2012 for a managed private cloud. The series will demonstrate how to deploy a Hyper-V host cluster, Virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager, Service Manager, Orchestrator and the Cloud Service Process Management Pack. Additionally, it will show how to integrate them all together and do so in a high performance and high availability configuration.

The web cast series starts the week of May 28th and will be every Tuesday and Thursday at 11:00 AM Redmond (Pacific) time from May 29th through June 28th. All of the web casts will be available on demand after the initial showing.

5/29/2012
11:00:00 AM - Bare Metal to Private Cloud (Part 1 of 8): Beginning with
the End in Mind

https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9809577
or https://bit.ly/JTGtJK

Abstract:

In this session, we take a look at the end state of managing a private cloud with
Microsoft System Center, including the Cloud Services management pack. The
sessions that follow this session describe how to go from bare metal to a
private cloud managed by System Center._____________

5/31/2012
11:00:00 AM - Bare Metal to Private Cloud (Part 2 of 8): Hardware and
Prerequisite Software Platform

https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9809578
or https://bit.ly/KJc41E

Abstract:

In this session, we take a look at the hardware used for these sessions as examples of
the kind of hardware that you can use to run a private cloud. We’ll also
discuss how to install and configure the prerequisite software, such as the
Windows Server operating system, SQL Server data management software, and
Active Directory Domain Services.

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6/5/2012
11:00:00 AM - Bare Metal to Private Cloud (Part 3 of 8): Clustering
Hyper-V and Installing a Highly Available Virtual Machine Manager Cluster

https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9809579
or https://bit.ly/KvgVAM

Abstract:

In this session, we take a look at how to create a Hyper-V host cluster and install a
highly available cluster by using Virtual Machine Manager, a component of
Microsoft System Center 2012.

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6/7/2012
11:00:00 AM - Bare Metal to Private Cloud (Part 4 of 8): Configuring
System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager

https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9809580
or https://bit.ly/KlsCYU

Abstract:

In this session, we talk about how to configure Virtual Machine Manager, a component of
Microsoft System Center 2012. We explore how to deploy agents, create a host
group, create a cloud, and create virtual networks.

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6/19/2012
11:00:00 AM - Bare Metal to Private Cloud (Part 5 of 8): Installing and
Configuring System Center 2012 - Operations Manager

https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9809581
or https://bit.ly/J2WDgE

Abstract:

In this session, we show how to install a highly available Microsoft System Center 2012
- Operations Manager and deploy agents to manage the private cloud.

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6/21/2012
11:00:00 AM - Bare Metal to Private Cloud (Part 6 of 8): Installing and
Configuring System Center 2012 - Service Manager

https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9809582
or https://bit.ly/Ms8GtP

Abstract:  

In this session, we show how to install a highly available Microsoft System Center 2012
Service Manager, including the configuration management database (CMDB), data
warehouse, reporting, self-service portal, and service catalog.

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6/26/2012 11:00:00
AM - Bare Metal to Private Cloud (Part 7 of 8): Installing and
Configuring System Center 2012 - Orchestrator

https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9809583
or https://bit.ly/JXQgPA

Abstract:

In this session, we show how to install a highly available Microsoft System Center 2012
- Orchestrator and installing the System Center and other integration packs for
automated administration of the private cloud.

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6/28/2012
11:00:00 AM - Bare Metal to Private Cloud (Part 8 of 8): Integrating
System Center 2012

https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9809584
or https://bit.ly/JcGHxd

Abstract:

In this session, we configure the many integration points between the Microsoft System
Center components and also between System Center and Active Directory Domain
Services.

Enjoy!

Chris Samson - Microsoft

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