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

• SQL Server (SQLIN01)
• SQL Server (SQLIN02)
• SQL Server Agent (SQLIN01)
• SQL Server Agent (SQLIN02)
Figure 53. SQL instances
e Open the properties for each service, select the Log On tab, change the password, and click OK.
f Once the password has been changed for each service, open Failover Cluster Manager, and then connect to the SQL cluster,
<
Prex
>SQLCL.
g Select
Nodes, right-click on the rst node, <Prex>SQL01, and select
Pause > Drain Roles.
h Restart the node, and once it is back in a paused state you can proceed to right-click on the node, and select Resume > Fail
R
oles Back
.
i Continue with the next node, <
Prex
>SQL01, from step c onward.
3 Reset the VMM service account password, as follows:
a Launch
Active Directory Users and Computers , and locate the SQL service account, <
Prex
>-SVC-VMM.
b Right-click and select Reset Password to open a dialog where you can type a new password. Deselect User must change
pass
word at next logon before clicking OK.
c Open the Services console (
services.msc), and connect to the VMM server, <
Prex
>VMM01.
d Locate the System Center Virtual Machine Manager service.
Figure 54. System Center Virtual Machine Manager service
e Open the properties for the service, select the Log On tab where you can change the password, and then click OK.
f Right-click once more, and select Start to start the VMM service.
4 Reset the System account password in Active Directory, Service Management Automation (SMA), and VMM by doing the following:
a Launch Active Directory Users and Computers, and locate the System service account, <
Prex
>-System.
b Right-click and select Reset Password to open a dialog where you can type a new password. Deselect User must change
pass
word at next logon before clicking OK.
c Next, run the
Set-SmaCredential cmdlet to set the matching password in SMA.
Set-SmaCredential -Name "<Prefix>-System" -Value (Get-Credential) -WebServiceEndpoint
https://<endpoint>
For example, where <
Prex
> equals IPS, and <endpoint> equals <
Prex
>APA01, the command is as follows:
Set-SmaCredential -Name "IPS-System" -Value (Get-Credential) -WebServiceEndpoint https://
IPSAPA01
d When prompted for credentials, enter the System service account username, and enter the password that you used in step b.
e Next, open the VMM management console, and connect to the VMM server, <
Prex
>VMM01.
f In the Settings workspace, expand Security, and then select Run As Accounts.
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