Michael Rüefli, a cloud architect working for INSERTO in Switserland has released a paper titled: "System Center 2012 R2 Service Management Automation" on Microsoft TechNet. The Paper which contains 63 pages covers the basic architecture, installation and use of System Center 2012 R2 Service Management Automation (SMA). SMA is a feature introduced with the release of System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator which integrates into the Windows Azure Pack services and Service Provider Foundation providing Orchestration functionality by running PowerShell workflows. The main purpose of SMA is to automate deployments, like VM, Clouds, Web Sites and databases.
The paper covers the following topics:
- Introduction
- SMA Architecture
- Installing SMA
- Scaling out a SMA Deployment
- Creating and using Runbooks
- FAQ
- Useful Resources and Links
- Limitations of PowerShell workflows
- Sample Code