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

NOTE
: You can also run the commands from the Console VM. However, if you do this, you must replace
localhost
in each of
the following steps with the host name of the SMA VM.
2 In a Windows PowerShell console that is running with elevated user rights (Run as Administrator), run the Get-SmaJob cmdlet to nd
the job ID and the number o
f errors.
Get-SmaJob –RunbookName PasswordReset-Log –WebServiceEndpoint 'https://localhost'
3 Copy the job ID from the results of the Get-SmaJob command, and use it in the following commands.
4 Run the following commands to get the job output, specifying the job ID value that you obtained in step 3.
Get-SmaJobOutput –JobId JobId –Stream Error –WebServiceEndpoint 'https://localhost'
| %{ $_ } | sort StreamTime > Error.txt
Get-SmaJobOutput –JobId JobId –Stream Any –WebServiceEndpoint 'https://localhost'
| %{ $_ } | sort StreamTime > Any.txt
Viewing job status and errors in the Windows Azure Pack portal
You can also view password reset script job status and errors in the Windows Azure Pack management portal for administrators as follows:
1 In the Windows Azure Pack management portal for administrators, click Automation.
2 Click Runbooks.
3 In the search text box, type the word password, and then click Search.
4 In the search results, click
PasswordReset-Log.
5 Click
Jobs. On the Jobs page, you can view the status of current jobs.
6 To view logs, select the most recent job.
7 To view only errors, click
History, type error in the search text box, and then click Search.
Troubleshooting the MCPasswordReset script
The following sections discuss two errors you may encounter when running the MCPasswordReset script, and how to resolve them.
Error Some virtual machines or services related to VMM, SMA, SQL
Serv
er are not running
If you get the following error when you run the MCPasswordReset script, the service account passwords in VMM and/or SQL, or the
<Prex>-System account password in SMA might be out of sync with what is in AD DS. You must x this issue manually for the
MCPasswordReset script to run successfully.
ERROR
Some virtual machines and/or services related to VMM, SMA, and/or SQL Server are not running. No passwords have been reset.
F
or information about how to resolve this issue, see the
Troubleshooting the MCPassword Reset script section of the Dell Hybrid
Cloud S
ystem for Microsoft
Administrators Guide.
To synchronize SQL Server and VMM service account passwords:
1 Step 1: Reset the password of the service accounts in AD DS.
a Open
Active Directory Users and Computers on a computer in your domain on which this is installed, as a user who has rights
to do account management in AD DS.
b Expand the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft OU, and then click the
<
Prex
>-SVC-SQL account.
c Right-click the account, and then click Reset Password.
d Change the password.
e Clear the check box for
User must change password at next logon, and then click OK.
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