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
As an administrator, you must do the following to o
er services to tenants:
1 Create resources that you want to o
er to tenants, such as VM roles. This typically involves creating artifacts such as VHDs in the
tenant share of the VMM library, conguring Gallery items, and conguring the management portal for administrators to oer the
service.
2 Create plans (with quotas) and add-ons to bundle the services that you want to o
er as a subscription.
3 Make plans private or public as needed.
4 Manage tenants and resources, and monitor usage.
To learn about general administration of Windows Azure Pack, see the following resources on the web.
• Administer Plans and Add-ons
(http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn469339.aspx)
• Administer user accounts and subscriptions
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249517.aspx)
• Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server
(http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn296435.aspx)
• The Windows Azure Pack Wiki
(http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20689.the-windows-azure-pack-wiki-
wapack.aspx)
• Provision and con
gure services in Windows Azure Pack (http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn457759.aspx)
• Virtual Machine Clouds troubleshooting (http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn554317.aspx)
• Troubleshooting Windows Azure Pack & Gallery Items (VM Roles) (Part 1)(https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/privatecloud/
2
013/11/24/troubleshooting-windows-azure-pack-gallery-items-vm-roles-part-1/)
• Troubleshooting Windows Azure Pack & Gallery Items (VM Roles) (Part 2) (http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/
2
013/11/25/troubleshooting-windows-azure-pack-amp-gallery-items-vm-roles-part-2.aspx)
Walkthrough: Deploying a stand-alone VM using the TenantPlan
The following outlines steps to take when deploying a VM with the TenantPlan.
Viewing and updating plan settings
To view and update the TenantPlan settings:
1 In the Windows Azure Pack management portal for administrators, click Plans.
2 Click TenantPlan.
3 Under Plan services, click Virtual Machine Clouds.
4 Scroll down the page to view the resources that are available to the plan. By default, several VM templates that map to Azure sizing
(except for storage) are available.
5 Under Networks, click Add networks. Select the check box for each tenant VM network that you want to add to the plan.
NOTE: If the Management VM network is listed, remove it. If you see this VM network listed, make sure you have
completed the steps in Adding tenant VM networks to the cloud.
6 Click Save.
Enabling Remote Desktop in the default VM templates—optional
By default, Remote Desktop is not enabled in the operating system images that are used by the default VM templates. If you want to
enable R
emote Desktop in the templates, you can use an answer le—Unattend.xml le.
1 On the Console VM, copy the following text to Notepad, and then save the le as RemoteDesktopUnattend.xml.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
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