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

Updating to a Security Token Service and re-establishing trust...........................................................................41
How to open the management portal for administrators......................................................................................43
How to open the management portal for tenants.................................................................................................43
Oering services t
o tenants
..................................................................................................................................... 43
Optional con
guration
............................................................................................................................................... 49
Automating tasks for e
ciency
............................................................................................................................... 50
Windows Azure Pack API reference content for developers............................................................................... 50
Conguring disast
er recovery protection
..................................................................................................................... 50
Step 1 Onboard to Azure Site Recovery.................................................................................................................. 51
Step 2 Enable protection on a plan or add-on........................................................................................................56
Step 3 Tenants create resources..............................................................................................................................57
Step 4 Con
gure network mapping
.........................................................................................................................57
Step 5 Run a failover................................................................................................................................................. 58
Step 6 Access replicated VMs.................................................................................................................................. 61
3 Operations................................................................................................................................................... 62
Monitoring.........................................................................................................................................................................62
Onboarding to Operational Insights......................................................................................................................... 62
Using Operations Manager....................................................................................................................................... 63
Using Operational Insights........................................................................................................................................ 65
Backup and recovery.......................................................................................................................................................65
Onboard to Azure Backup........................................................................................................................................ 65
Default backup schedule and retention policy........................................................................................................69
DPM protection groups.............................................................................................................................................70
Disable machine account password rotation on management VMs....................................................................70
Protecting tenant VMs..............................................................................................................................................70
Recovering VMs and databases—high level.......................................................................................................... 72
Recovering from management component failures...............................................................................................77
Recovering a tenant VM............................................................................................................................................81
Recovering DPM from DPM failures....................................................................................................................... 85
Adding extra disks to DPM....................................................................................................................................... 93
Monitoring DPM.........................................................................................................................................................95
Using the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft data consistency runbooks................................................ 96
Updating the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft.............................................................................................. 100
Overview of the Patch and Update framework................................................................................................... 100
How to check which update package is installed..................................................................................................101
How to obtain update packages..............................................................................................................................101
Shutting down and starting up the stamp................................................................................................................... 101
Before you begin.......................................................................................................................................................102
Shutting down the stamp........................................................................................................................................102
Starting up the stamp..............................................................................................................................................105
Recovering after a power outage...........................................................................................................................109
4 Security...................................................................................................................................................... 114
User accounts and groups that are added by default.................................................................................................114
User accounts............................................................................................................................................................114
4 Contents