Deliver On-premises Private Cloud Computing Foundation

The Microsoft Server platform, comprised of Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center, combined with the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0, helps IT organizations extend their existing investments to deliver on-premises private cloud computing. This increases IT agility enabling faster responses to business requirements through self-service provisioning of IT infrastructure.

The Self-Service Portal, built on top of Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center, is a free, extensible, turnkey solution that empowers datacenters to dynamically pool, allocate, and manage resources to enable on premises private cloud computing. Using this solution, IT organizations create agile, virtualized infrastructures and facilitate business agility, operational efficiencies, and reduced management complexity.

Below are some key capabilities of the self-service portal:

• Automation and guidance, with step-by-step instructions and technical best practices to help assess, plan, and design an on-premises cloud infrastructure.
• Organization and business-unit onboarding, with automated workflows to onboard line-of-business applications to a virtualized, shared resource pool.
• A dynamic provisioning engine that can, in conjunction with System Center and Hyper-V, rapidly provision a virtualized infrastructure.
• End-user self-service capabilities, for requesting infrastructure in a self-service model for their applications and services.

What's in This Solution?

This solution contains a combination of Microsoft products, services, and partner offerings, as summarized below. It can be licensed through the Core Infrastructure Server Suites available through the Enrollment for Core Infrastructure. System Center can also be licensed through the System Center Server Management Suites.