What's new in Windows Admin Center

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Last year, Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Admin Center (WAC) v2110. WAC has long been an important element of IT management simplicity, bringing together multiple consoles in a modern, simple, integrated, and secure remote-management experience. WAC enables managing Windows Server instances anywhere, including physical systems or virtual machines on any hypervisor or running in any cloud.

 

WAC helps customers:

• Simplify server and cluster management with modernized versions of familiar, less than 5 minutes for installation, and the ability to manage servers immediately with no additional configuration required.
• Adopt Hybrid Cloud via integration with Azure, so you have the option to connect on-premises servers with cloud services.
• Streamline management for Azure Stack HCI or Windows Server hyperconverged clusters using simplified workloads to create and manage virtual machines (VMs), Storage Spaces Direct volumes, software-defined networking and more.

The new version of WAC brings you some great new capabilities. This Microsoft Ignite session, presented by Prasidh Arora from Microsoft, features demos of WAC’s key new features and improvements, along with a sneak peek of their future-thinking ideas to make server management easier.

It’s also good to keep in mind that HPE has gone a step further to simplify monitoring and management of HPE ProLiant servers and HCI with HPE WAC extensions. We offer two WAC extensions that use HPE iLO technology to give users direct visibility into server-level inventory and diagnostic information to help monitor, manage, and troubleshoot server infrastructure right in WAC. These include:

• Server Health and Management Extension displays server health along with remediation options, server components, and BIOS settings with a simplified single-pane-of-glass view that combines operating system and hardware information.
• Azure Stack HCI Extension gives visibility into firmware and driver revisions across cluster nodes that are not in the standard Storage Spaces Direct interface in Windows Admin Center to help prevent and mitigate problems.

Learn more:

• Watch the on-demand session: What’s new in Windows Admin Center
• Access Server Management Tools from Anywhere with Microsoft Windows Admin Center