What's new in System Center 2019?
In March 2018 Microsoft announced System Center 2019, Microsoft also published a roadmap where System Center 2019 is announced for Q1 in 2019.
Contents
The System Center Roadmap
System Center Orchestrator 2019
System Center Data Protection Manager 2019
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019
System Center Operations Manager 2019
System Center Configuration Manager 2019
System Center Service Manager 2019
The System Center Roadmap
You can find the roadmap here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/9/6/59602436-C9C5-48A1-B305-827654B9077B/System_Center_Roadmap_EN_US.pdf
What's new in System Center 2019?
Below you will find most of the new features of all System Center products.
System Center Orchestrator
64 bit support.
PowerShell version 4 and newer.
Support for SQL Server 2017.
Support for TLS 1.2.
Process Automation
Orchestrate processes using graphical, PowerShell, and Python runbooks.
Configuration Management
- Collect inventory.
- Track changes.
- Configure desired state.
Update Management
- Assess compliance.
- Schedule update installation.
Azure Functions
Event-driven, compute on-demand, events occurring in Azure, third-party or on-premises systems.
Heterogenous
- Windows and Linux
- Azure and on-premises.
System Center Data Protection Manager
• Support Windows Server 2019.
• SQL Server 2017.
• VMware to tape backup.
• Modern backup storage improvements.
• Greater flexibility in recovering from Azure.
Rich Reporting and Monitoring
Custom queries.
ITSM integration.
No infrastructure.
Enterprise Wide.
Custom Reports.
Cross tenant support.
You can connect to Log Analytics and push data to it or make use of Power BI.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Storage Optimization
New option available for a host/cluster: Optimize Disk Space.
Storage Health in VMM.
We can now see the health of storage and operational status.
Storage Pool.
LUN.
Physical Disk.
You can deploy S2D clusters using VMM.
VMM Roles
New role:
Virtual Machine administrator (VM Admin).
Can read fabric but not change anything.
Scope (cloud or host groups)
Permissions:
Specific things like for example: Migrate, Save, Start, Stop, pause and resume...
Host layer 2 network information (also in VMM 1807)
Layer 2 info for troubleshooting.
Link Layer Discovery Protocol used to enumerate details.
Connect your virtual network with datacenter physical network
GUI support for L3 Forwarding gateway creation.
Secure data in transit between VMs in a subnet
NC controlled Virtual Network.
Migrate UEFI VMware VM to Hyper-V Gen2
Convert VM wizard:
Auto-detect source VM firmware configuration.
Select default Hyper-V VM generation.
Default enables secure boot firmware.
System Center Operations Manager
HTML5 dashboards
No dependency
Easy access
Extensibility
Faster resolutions
Inline actions
Operator friendly
Notification and subscription enhancement
Enhanced criteria builder with the ability to perform "OR" and "Exclude" operations.
Rich HTML email notifications
Flexibility to customize HTML content
New setting available: "Enable HTML formatting for the email message"
Enhanced alert management for Monitors
Current:
Alert generating monitor -> Generates an alert:
The operator works on the issue and closes the alert.
The alert is closed.
New:
Alert generating monitor -> Generates an alert:
The operator works on the issue and closes the alert.
The alert is not allowed to be closed.
New Dashboard: Alert Closure Failure.
Linux/UNIX monitoring enhancements.
Enhanced Linux/UNIX alerting in failover scenarios.
No duplicate alerts.
Updates & recommendations for Linux workloads.
Management pack updates.
Linux Log file monitoring:
Application Logs.
Network Protocols.
Cloud Services (Azure).
Others (Docker/DSTAT/MySQL).
Monitor any data source > Generate alerts in SCOM.
Application Performance Monitoring Agent (available in Update Rollup 6 for SCOM 2016)
Scheduled Maintenance Mode
Service Map integration
Automatically discover and map servers and their dependencies in real-time with minimal configuration.
Leverage SCOM monitoring for overlaying health information on the Service Map.
Azure Management Pack for SCOM.
SQL Server 2017 support.
Monitor Windows Server 2019.
Monitoring latest application servers like Tomcat 9, WildFly 14, WebSphere 9.0, and Web Logic Server 12cR2.
VSEA support for Visual Studio 2017.
System Center Configuration Manager
Support all patching scenarios enabled today for servers and VMs.
Current branch releases align with Windows and Office.
System Center Service Manager
Improved UI responsiveness.
AD connector improvement.
Support for SQL Server 2017.
Support for TLS 1.2.
Service Catalog
Build and deliver turnkey applications to your enterprise IT customers.
Azure Policy
Enable security and management at scale for Azure resources.
Azure Blueprint
Ticketing
Partner-enabled solutions.