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
• Windows Azure Pack
• System Center
• SQL Server
• Dell software
• Dell Deployment UI
• Drivers and rm
ware updates for Dell Hardware
If the package also includes rmware and driver updates, the framework installs the approved rmware and driver updates on the physical
cluster nodes.
IMPORTANT
: Do NOT install Windows Server, Windows Azure Pack, System Center, and SQL Server updates by using any
method other than the P&U framework. Install only update packages that Microsoft and Dell have tested and approved for the
Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft.
Note the following:
• The P&U update process is the only supported process to apply the Microsoft updates to DHCS.
• Applying Dell EMC rm
ware or updates for individual components, and not via the Dell P&U package, is known to cause technical
issues.
• To be fully supported, the customer must apply all P&U updates on a regular basis.
How to check which update package is installed
To check the version of the update package that is currently installed on the stamp, do the following:
1 On the Console VM, open the DeploymentManifest.xml le at the path:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Cloud Solutions\DeployDriver\Manifests
2 At the top of the le, look for the following entries:
• “Version=”: This is the version of the Dell-provided update package.
• “MicrosoftVersion=”: This is the version of the Microsoft-specic updates that were incorporated in the Dell-provided update
package, for example:
"MicrosoftVersion": "1.0.1603.21000"
The third value (1603 in the example) indicates the year and month of the Microsoft update package.
How to obtain update packages
Dell releases approved updates as Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft P&U packages. To check if a new update package is available,
see the Drivers and Downloads section of the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft page on the Dell Support website—
support.dell.com. Navigate to Browse for a product. Click
View products. Click
Servers, Storage, & Networking > Engineering Solutions
> Microsoft Cloud Solutions > Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft. You can nd the la
test update package by clicking Drivers and
Downloads.
Starting with release 1.1.1, update-specic detailed instructions for the Patch and Update process are distributed as part of the update
package. You can nd the current document, titled DHCS Patch and Update Framework for <current_version>, at the location where you
nd approved updates, as described in the preceding paragraph.
Shutting down and starting up the stamp
There are scenarios where a graceful shutdown of the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft stamp may be required. To do this, you must
f
ollow a series of sequenced steps. In addition, the case of a power outage is covered at the end of this section.
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