Administrator Guide
How to open the management portal for tenants..................................................................................................41
Oering services to tenants......................................................................................................................................41
Optional conguration............................................................................................................................................... 47
Automating tasks for eciency................................................................................................................................48
Windows Azure Pack API reference content for developers............................................................................... 48
Conguring disaster recovery protection......................................................................................................................48
Step 1: Onboard to Azure Site Recovery.................................................................................................................49
Step 2: Enable protection on a plan or add-on.......................................................................................................52
Step 3: Tenants create resources.............................................................................................................................53
Step 4: Congure network mapping........................................................................................................................53
Step 5: Run a failover................................................................................................................................................ 54
Step 6: Access replicated VMs.................................................................................................................................57
3 Operations...................................................................................................................................................58
Monitoring.........................................................................................................................................................................58
Onboarding to Operational Insights......................................................................................................................... 58
Using Operations Manager.......................................................................................................................................59
Using Operational Insights.........................................................................................................................................61
Backup and recovery........................................................................................................................................................61
Onboard to Azure Backup......................................................................................................................................... 61
Default backup schedule and retention policy........................................................................................................65
DPM protection groups.............................................................................................................................................66
Disable machine account password rotation on management VMs....................................................................66
Protecting tenant VMs..............................................................................................................................................66
Recovering VMs and databases (high level)..........................................................................................................68
Recovering from management component failures...............................................................................................73
Recovering a tenant VM........................................................................................................................................... 77
Recovering DPM from DPM failures........................................................................................................................ 81
Adding extra disks to DPM....................................................................................................................................... 89
Monitoring DPM......................................................................................................................................................... 91
Using the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft data consistency runbooks................................................ 92
Updating the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft................................................................................................95
Overview of the Patch and Update framework.....................................................................................................95
How to check which update package is installed.................................................................................................. 96
How to obtain the update packages....................................................................................................................... 96
When to run the update package............................................................................................................................ 97
Preparing the patching environment....................................................................................................................... 97
Update the computers.............................................................................................................................................. 98
Monitoring the Patch and Update process (optional)..........................................................................................101
Post update cleanup................................................................................................................................................ 102
Shutting down and starting up the stamp.................................................................................................................. 102
Before you begin.......................................................................................................................................................103
Shutting down the stamp........................................................................................................................................103
Starting up the stamp..............................................................................................................................................106
Recovering after a power outage........................................................................................................................... 110
4 Security...................................................................................................................................................... 115
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