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
Figure 10. New le shar
e storage available
Using Windows Azure Pack
With Windows Azure Pack, you can o
er rich, self-service cloud IaaS services.
With the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft solution, you can easily provision and o
er virtual machines and VM roles for your users.
All components needed for IaaS through the Virtual Machine Cloud resource provider are already installed, with the required integration
already congured.
To read about how to manage Windows Azure Pack, see Administer Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server on Microsoft TechNet.
Default Windows Azure Pack con
guration
In the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft, the Windows Azure Pack components are installed on two VMs, as described in the
f
ollowing table.
Table 13. Windows Azure Pack VMs
VM Name Purpose
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Prex
>APA01 Hosts the Windows Azure Pack admin components. These include:
• Management portal for administrators— A portal for administrators to
congure and manage resource clouds, user accounts, tenant plans, quotas,
and pricing. In this portal, administrators create plans, and manage user
subscriptions.
• Admin API— Exposes functionality to complete administrative tasks from
the management portal for administrators or through the use of Windows
PowerShell cmdlets.
• Tenant API—Enables tenants to manage and congure cloud services that
are included in the plans that they subscribe to.
• Admin authentication site— By default, Windows Azure Pack uses
Windows authentication for the administration portal. Before going into
production, you must disable this site and use AD FS or an external third-
party identity system that supports Web Services Federation (WS-
Federation) and JWT tokens to authenticate users.
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