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
Figure 49. DPM Refresh agents
Known Issues
Issue #1
: WAP (Windows Azure Pack) Admin API, WAP Usage, and Usage Collector components report a Warning state.
Symptoms: After a restart of Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft, the following Windows Azure portal components are in a Warning
state, and there are the following alerts in Operations Manager:
• Windows Azure Pack Site Unknown Error Monitor Usage
• Windows Azure Pack Site Unknown Error Monitor Usage Collector.
Possible cause:
At some point during the startup, the Windows Azure management portal for administrators VM (<Prex>APA01) could not connect to the
Windo
ws Azure Pack database.
Resolution:
No action is required. Wait for 1 hour for the monitors to automatically reset the state to healthy.
Issue #2:
During a restart of Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft, startup of the compute cluster nodes leaves one or more of the
compute cluster hosts in a Needs Attention state in VMM. However, the host is actually running.
Symptoms:
• In the VMM console, the following status is reported for the compute cluster host and its VMs:
– Host Status of the compute cluster node is Needs Attention.
– VMs running on the computer cluster host have a status of Host Not Responding, and the virtual machine state is Stopped
.
• In Failover Cluster Manager, the compute cluster host and the VMs that are on it are in a Running state.
Resolution:
108 Operations