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
Network con
guration
The default Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft network settings are congured during deployment.
By default, there is one logical network that is named Infrastructure, with three IP address pools:
• Management_Pool
• Storage1_Pool
• Storage2_Pool
By default, there are three VM networks, Management, Storage1, and Storage2; all are associated with the Infrastructure logical network.
These ha
ve the same associated IP address pools congured as the pools for the logical network.
For more information about networking concepts in VMM, see this
blog post.
You must con
gure VM networks for tenant use, as described in
Create tenant VM networks.
Cloud con
guration
By default, there is a single cloud for tenant resources. The cloud is named Tenant Cloud. This cloud has the following properties in
VMM:
NOTE: To view the cloud properties in the VM console, open the VMs and Services workspace. Under Cloud, right-click Tenant
Cloud, and then click Properties.
Table 6. Cloud properties
Resource Value
Host group All Hosts
Logical networks Infrastructure
Load balancers Microsoft Network Load Balancing (NLB)
Port classica
tions All are selected.
Storage classication PrimaryStorage
Read-only library shares Name:
MSSCVMMLibrary
Path:
\\<Prefix>VMM01.domain.com\MSSCVMMLibrary
Capacity All set to
Use Maximum.
Custom properties CreateHighlyAvailableVMRoles: true
NOTE
: The cloud must have this custom property set to true for the VMs to congure as
highly available.
SupportedVmGenerationForVmRole: 1
12 Overview