Modeling Framework Key to Microsoft's Management Strategy

System Center management products, beginning with Operations Manager 2007, will make extensive use of software models for system health monitoring, configuration, and other purposes. These models, critical to Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), specify how to compare the actual attributes of system components against their desired attributes and fix differences. Although Microsoft has had success forming an industry group to standardize the language used to describe such models, it will have more difficulty getting the industry to agree on the next step: a common library of core models compatible with Microsoft’s management software from which developers can create more sophisticated models.

The DSI Vision

The DSI is Microsoft’s long-term plan to enable its vision of the so-called dynamic data center, in which the following occurs:

• Services and applications are decoupled from physical resources, allowing them to be run where they will use physical resources most efficiently,