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
Administration
This chapter contains detailed information about administrative tasks required for implementing Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft.
Topics:
• What to do r
st
• 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
-specied IP addresses in VMM
• Creating additional tenant storage shares
• Using Windows Azure Pack
• Conguring disaster recovery protection
What to do r
st
After you deploy the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft stamp, you can get up and running by doing the following:
• Adding management accounts
• Familiarizing yourself with the tools
• Checking system health
• Creating tenant VM networks
• Adding tenant VM networks to the cloud
• Flagging the operating system VHD in the VM templates
• Creating additional tenant storage, if you want to do this immediately.
Before you go into production, do the following:
• Replace self-signed certicates
• Disable the default Windows Azure Pack authentication sites
• Update to a Security Token Service such as Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and re-establish trust.
NOTE: Optionally, you can set up tenant portal access on an isolated network. See the section Before you go into production for
mor
e information.
Next steps
After you complete the deployment of the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft stamp, there are additional steps you must complete.
These st
eps include:
• Verify the product license key, as described in the section that follows
• Enable guest-specied IP addresses in VMM
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