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 13. IP addresses
Required settings if you want to create your own VM templates
If you create your own VM templates in VMM, be aware that the following settings are required for Azure Site Recovery to work correctly.
NOTE
: You can open the Create VM Template Wizard from the Library workspace in the VMM console. Under Templates, right-
click VM Templates, and then click Create VM Template.
Use the following settings with the Create VM Template Wizard:
1 On the
Identity page of the wizard:
a For
Generation, select Generation 1.
NOTE: This setting appears only if you specify a virtual hard disk as the source.
2 On the
Congure Hardware page:
a Under
Network Adapters, you must have a network adapter that is connected to a VM network.
b Under Bus Con
guration, make sure that one disk has the Contains the operating system for the virtual machine check box
selected.
c Under Advanced
, mark the VM as highly available. Click Availability, and then select the Make this virtual machine highly
available check box.
3 On the Congure Oper
ating System page:
a In the
Guest OS prole list, select Create new Windows operating system customization settings.
b For
Operating System, make sure that you select the operating system of the virtual machine.
4 On the Application Con
guration
page:
a For
OS Compatibility, make sure that you select the operating system of the virtual machine.
Managing tenants
The Windows Azure Pack management portal for administrators gives you the ability to manage both tenants and subscriptions. You can
cr
eate, delete, suspend, or otherwise make changes to tenant accounts or subscriptions.
For additional information, see
Administer User Accounts and Subscriptions (http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn249517.aspx) in the
Micr
osoft TechNet Library.
User Accounts Page
On the
User Accounts page, you can see a list of tenants, including:
• When they are active
• When they enrolled
• Their numbers of subscriptions
You can also search for subscriptions, and suspend and delete user accounts.
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