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
c To stop the remote computer, run the following command where <HostName> is the name of a compute cluster host:
Stop-Computer –ComputerName <HostName> –Force
d When the host is shut down, continue to the next host. Always wait until the current host shuts down before you shut down the
ne
xt host. Continue until all compute cluster hosts are shut down.
2 Method 2: Connect through the iDRAC
If the iDRACs are connected, you can use the following method to shut down the compute cluster hosts:
a Using the laptop that is connected to port 39 or 40 of the switch, connect to the IPv4 iDRAC address of a compute cluster host
b
y using a browser—for example https://192.168.164.133.
b Expand
Overview-Server-Power/Thermal. Click the Power Control tab. Click Graceful Shutdown, and then click Apply.
c Repeat for every compute cluster on the stamp.
Step 7 Shut down the le server cluster hosts
Finally, shut down the le server cluster hosts. You can follow the same procedure as in the previous step, except specify the le server
cluster host names or iDRAC IP addresses. Make sure that you shut down the hosts one at a time.
Step 8 Shut down other hardware devices
At this point, the JBODs are still powered on and are not remotely manageable in terms of power on/o.
Depending on the reason for the stamp shutdown (maintenance versus relocation), you can do either of the following:
• Power them o
by switching o the PDUs for the rack, or
• Switch them o
individually. Press the on/o switch on the back of the device.
Starting up the stamp
At a high level, the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft startup sequence steps are as follows:
1 Power Distribution Units (PDUs)
2 JBODs
3 File server cluster hosts
4 Compute cluster hosts
5 Infrastructure VMs
6 Tenant VMs
7 Backup hosts
8 DPM VMs
Use the following detailed procedures to gracefully start up the stamp.
Prerequisites
Prepare a laptop if iDRACs are connected
If the iDRACs are connected in the environment, Dell recommends that you use a laptop to perform these tasks.
1 Connect the laptop to port 39 or 40 of the switch of the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft stamp. This switch is the network
switch that you use for management of Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft infrastructure components through iDRAC
connections.
2 Congure the laptop with a static IP address from the iDRAC subnet range. This step enables network communication to the iDRACs
in the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft stamp.
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