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
By default, Remote Desktop is enabled on the Console VM.
To manage Windows Azure Pack, you can connect from a web browser on the Console VM. See How to open the management portal for
administr
ators.
Accounts to use for management
To perform most administrative duties in Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft, you can add users or groups to the <
Prex
>-Ops-
Admins group in the Active Directory domain that you specied during deployment. (You can nd this group in the Organizational Unit (OU)
that you specied during deployment.)
Accounts in this group have administrator rights to the following:
• VMM
• Operations Manager
• DPM
• Windows Azure Pack management portal for administrators
• Local administrator access on all infrastructure VMs
To administer SQL Server databases, an account must be a member of the <
Prex
>-Diag-Admins group. This group is a member of the
sysadmin role. This group is also a member of the local Administrators group on the physical hosts.
For more information about user accounts and groups in Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft, see
User accounts and groups that are
added b
y default.
Connecting to management tools
The following table includes the tools that you use most often for administration. There are many other tools available on the Console VM.
T
o view all tools, click Start, and then click the down arrow. This displays all applications that are installed on the Console VM, for example
Windows PowerShell.
Table 10. Management tools
Management Tool Instructions
Console VM Use a Remote Desktop Connection to log on to the Console VM. Typically, you would log on as
a member o
f the <
Prex
>-Ops-Admins group.
VMM console
1 On the Console VM, click the Virtual Machine Manager Console icon on the taskbar.
2 In the Connect to Server dialog box, the name of the VMM server is prepopulated, for
example:
<
Prex
>VMM01:8100
3 Click
Connect.
Operations Console
On the Console VM, open the Operations Console by using the icon on the taskbar.
Data Protection Manager console
If you deployed the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft backup infrastructure, you can
connect to the DPM servers, by using either of the following methods:
Method 1: Open the DPM Administrator console directly
1 On the Console VM, click the Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager icon
on the t
askbar.
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