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
Restoring access to a tenant-created virtual machine
To restore a tenant's access to virtual network ($vmn), run the following commands, where <VMNetworkName> is the name of the
t
enant's virtual network, and <user1@domain.com> is the tenant's user account:
$vmn = Get-SCVMNetwork –Name <VMNetworkName>
Set-SCVMNetwork -VMNetwork $vmn -UserRole $ur -Owner <user1@domain.com>
-Cloud $cloud
Recovering access to a tenant-created VM role
To recover access to a tenant-created VM role, the VM role must be healthy and have all of its associated VMs. Also, the VMM host must
not have been removed and re-added in VMM. To recover access to the VM role, run the following command, where <VMRoleName> is
the name of the VM role, and <user1@domain.com> is the tenant's user account:
Set-CloudService -CloudService <VMRoleName> -Owner <user1@domain.com> -UserRole $ur -Cloud
$cloud
Updating the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft
The following sections describe how you can apply software and rmware updates for the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft stamp,
using the Patch and Update framework.
Overview of the Patch and Update framework
Use the Patch and Update framework to apply software and rmware updates.
Throughout the lifecycle of the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft, there are software, driver, and rmware updates that either
address issues or provide for enhanced operations. Dell releases Patch and Update (P&U) bundles to make it easier to maintain the cloud
solution. These bundles ensure that the process of applying updates is minimally disruptive to the solution and the virtual machines that it is
hosting. The bundles are available from Support.dell.com, and combine the relevant software, driver, and rmware updates from both Dell
and Microsoft into a single package. This package is extracted and run from within the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft, and takes
advantage of technologies that enable you to apply the updates in an orchestrated manner. Individual nodes or functions within the cloud
solution may be unavailable during the update process, but the virtual machines that the solution is hosting remain operational. When these
bundles are released, there are Release Notes to describe their contents and instructions that outline how to extract and apply the Patch
and Update bundle within the cloud solution.
WARNING: The addition of any non-DHCS hardware to your system will cause the Patch and Update process to fail.
NOTE: The P&U framework does not update tenant VMs.
When the P&U framework runs, it does the following:
• Orchestrates the updates so that they are performed in the correct order.
• Automatically puts servers in and out of maintenance mode during servicing.
• Validates components when servicing is complete.
The P&U framework installs approved software updates on infrastructure hosts and VMs for various combinations of the following
products:
NOTE: Any given package may or may not contain updates from all the categories listed. For the specic contents of any
particular package, see the package
Release Notes
, which you can obtain from the same download location as the package itself.
See How to obtain the update packages for details.
• Windows Server
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