System Center Guide

Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center (DIT-SC), a forthcoming Microsoft provided Solution Accelerator for optimizing data center operations, appears to be raising more questions than it’s answering. Formerly known as the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises (DDCT-E), the renamed solution is meant to provide a free, partner-extensible framework for creating agile, virtualized infrastructures. Based on some currently available blog entries and data sheets, here’s what we know about DIT-SC now:

• It’s going to be free (no word on support yet)
• Its usefulness is likely going to depend on the partner adoption rate and extensions they make available
• Largely based on PowerShell for automating data center operations
• It will be available the first half of 2010
• Includes self-service user/admin portals
• Integrates with System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Like I said, there’s not a lot of information about this yet. But, I’m sure more information will be made available at the Microsoft Management Summit. In the meantime, I’d encourage to visit the following resources:

DIT Homepage
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/private-cloud.aspx

Dynamic Data Center Alliance Team Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/ddcalliance/default.aspx

DIT Data Sheet
http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/D/3/DD35D5A7-1B78-4277-BCB6-0027A0196775/Datasheet_DIT-SC_Jan2010.docx

DIT-SC FAQ
http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/D/3/DD35D5A7-1B78-4277-BCB6-0027A0196775/FAQ_DIT-SC_Jan2010_updated.docx