Administrator Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft Cloud Platform System Standard Version 1.5 Administrators Guide based on release 1803
- Overview
- Administration
- What to do first
- Next steps
- Managing Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft
- Creating tenant VM networks
- Adding tenant VM networks to the cloud
- Flagging the operating system VHD in the VM templates
- Enabling guest-specified IP addresses in VMM
- Creating additional tenant storage shares
- Using Windows Azure Pack
- Default Windows Azure Pack configuration
- Before you go into production
- Setting up tenant portal access on an isolated network
- Replacing self-signed certificates
- Disabling the tenant AuthSite and the admin Windows AuthSite websites
- Updating to a Security Token Service and re-establishing trust
- How to open the management portal for administrators
- How to open the management portal for tenants
- Offering services to tenants
- Optional configuration
- Automating tasks for efficiency
- Windows Azure Pack API reference content for developers
- Configuring disaster recovery protection
- Operations
- Monitoring
- Backup and recovery
- Onboard to Azure Backup
- Default backup schedule and retention policy
- DPM protection groups
- Disable machine account password rotation on management VMs
- Protecting tenant VMs
- Recovering VMs and databases—high level
- Recovering from management component failures
- Recovering a tenant VM
- Recovering DPM from DPM failures
- Adding extra disks to DPM
- Monitoring DPM
- Using the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft data consistency runbooks
- Updating the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft
- Shutting down and starting up the stamp
- Security
- Appendix A Expanding the stamp
- Appendix B Performing a factory reset
- Appendix C Retrieving cluster names, host names, and IP addresses
- Appendix D Ports and protocols
Storage cluster
The storage cluster is a two- to four-node Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) that is connected to just a bunch of disks (JBOD) storage. The
s
ystem uses Storage Spaces with an SOFS to provide shared storage in the form of SMB shares. These SMB shares are used by VMs to
store their associated VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) les.
All of these physical nodes run Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter edition (Server Core conguration).
• The storage cluster is named <Prefix>SFS.
• The Windows name of the storage cluster is <
Prefix>SCL.
The following table describes the default storage share layout:
Table 3. Default storage share
Share Name Description Storage Classica
tion
ManagementShare Stores the
.vhdx les for all the
infrastructure VMs on the compute cluster.
ManagementStorage
WitnessShareForCompute Stores the le shar
e witness for the
compute cluster.
ManagementStorage
Share01 The default share for tenant storage. PrimaryStorage
Backup infrastructure
The backup solution for Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft consists of one or more Hyper-V hosts with sucien
t backup capacity for
the stamp. These servers are separate from the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft stamp. The servers run Windows Server 2012 R2
Datacenter Edition.
Two VMs that are running Data Protection Manager (DPM) are provisioned on each backup host. The VMs run the full installation of
Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter edition. The rst DPM VM that is provisioned (typically <
Prex
>DPM01) is the backup server for the
management infrastructure VMs. Other DPM server VMs are provisioned to back up tenant workloads.
Virtual machines
The following describes VMs that the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft uses.
Infrastructure Virtual Machines
The compute cluster hosts the following infrastructure VMs. These VMs host the resources for Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft
f
abric and service management:
• All VMs run Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter edition.
• With the exception of the Console VM, all VMs on the compute cluster run Server Core.
• All VMs are highly available. This means that a live migration of the VM occurs if there is a host issue.
10 Overview