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
Contents
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Overview
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What is installed for Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft.......................................................................................7
On-premises software................................................................................................................................................. 7
Cloud services—optional............................................................................................................................................9
Compute cluster...........................................................................................................................................................9
Storage cluster............................................................................................................................................................10
Backup infrastructure.................................................................................................................................................10
Virtual machines..........................................................................................................................................................10
Network con
guration
............................................................................................................................................... 12
Cloud con
guration
.................................................................................................................................................... 12
VMM library con
guration
......................................................................................................................................... 13
About Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft licensing.............................................................................................14
License requirements for the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft infrastructure.......................................14
License activation....................................................................................................................................................... 14
Active Directory requirements.........................................................................................................................................14
Connecting to DVM................................................................................................................................................... 15
Running the script...................................................................................................................................................... 15
Check Group Policy settings........................................................................................................................................... 16
2 Administration.............................................................................................................................................. 17
What to do r
st
.................................................................................................................................................................17
Next steps..........................................................................................................................................................................17
Verify the product license key...................................................................................................................................18
Review known issues in this release........................................................................................................................ 20
Ensure that the stamp has the latest approved updates......................................................................................25
Managing Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft..................................................................................................... 25
Accounts to use for management........................................................................................................................... 26
Connecting to management tools............................................................................................................................26
How to run runbooks................................................................................................................................................. 27
Creating tenant VM networks........................................................................................................................................ 27
Conguring VL
ANs for tenant use
.......................................................................................................................... 29
Adding tenant VM networks to the cloud.....................................................................................................................29
Flagging the operating system VHD in the VM templates......................................................................................... 29
Enabling guest
-specied IP addresses in VMM
...........................................................................................................30
Creating additional tenant storage shares.................................................................................................................... 30
Using Windows Azure Pack............................................................................................................................................35
Default Windows Azure Pack con
guration
........................................................................................................... 35
Before you go into production..................................................................................................................................36
Setting up tenant portal access on an isolated network.......................................................................................36
Replacing self-signed certica
tes
............................................................................................................................ 40
Disabling the tenant AuthSite and the admin Windows AuthSite websites....................................................... 40
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