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
If the <
Prex>-System password is not in synch between SMA, AD DS, and VMM, the MCPasswordReset script cannot run. To x
this:
a Change the password for the <Prex>-System account in
Active Directory Users and Computers.
b Run the
Set-SmaCredential cmdlet to set the matching password in SMA. To do this, run the following commands from the VM
that is running SMA—<
Prex
>APA01:
$cred = Get-Credential
When you are prompted, enter <Domain>\<Prefix>-System, and the new password you set in Active Directory Users and
Comput
ers. Then, run the next line of the command.
Set-SmaCredential –Name "<Prefix>-System" –Value $cred –WebServiceEndpoint https://
<
Prefix>APA01.domain.com>
c Change the password of the <
Prex
>-System Run As account in VMM:
1 In the VMM console, open the Settings workspace.
2 Expand Security, and then click Run As Accounts.
3 Double-click <
Prex
>-System.
4 In the Password and Conrm password boxes, type the same password that you set in Active Directory Users and
Computers, and then click OK.
Error Some virtual machines from VMM, SMA, and SQL Server are not
running
The following error can occur when you try to run the MCPasswordReset script when required component VMs are not running.
ERROR
Some virtual machines from VMM, SMA, and SQL Server are not running. No passwords have been reset. For information about how
t
o resolve this issue, see the
Troubleshooting the MCPasswordReset script section of the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft
A
dministrators Guide. Virtual machines that are not running: <
list of VMs not running
>.
This error can be caused by one of the following issues:
• The VMs shown in the error message are turned o
. Verify that the VMs are turned on, and then try running the script again.
• One or more of the following account passwords is not in synch with AD DS:
– VMM service account
– SQL Server service account
– <Prex>-System account password in SMA
– <
Prex>-Fabric Run As account password in VMM.
Out-of-synch passwords must be manually x
ed for the MCPasswordReset script to run successfully.
To x this issue
, follow the procedures in
Error: Some virtual machines and/or services related to VMM, SMA, and/or SQL Server are not
running
, and then also complete the following procedure to synchronize the <Prex>-Fabric account:
To synchronize the <
Prex
>-Fabric account password in both AD DS and VMM
If the <
Prex>-Fabric Run As account password in VMM is not in synch with AD DS, the MCPasswordReset script cannot run because it
might not be able to get the state of required component VMs.
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