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
Service accounts.......................................................................................................................................................115
Groups........................................................................................................................................................................ 117
Resetting service account passwords..........................................................................................................................118
Resetting expired service account passwords...................................................................................................... 118
How service accounts are managed...................................................................................................................... 124
Important information about the password reset script...................................................................................... 124
How to run the MCPasswordReset script............................................................................................................ 125
Viewing MCPasswordReset script logs.................................................................................................................126
Troubleshooting the MCPasswordReset script.....................................................................................................127
Rotating Windows Azure Pack encryption keys.........................................................................................................130
Managing antivirus and antimalware............................................................................................................................130
Overview of default antimalware con
guration
....................................................................................................130
How to run unscheduled antimalware scans......................................................................................................... 131
How to view scan results and respond to malware incidents..............................................................................131
How to update antimalware de
nitions manually
................................................................................................. 132
How to verify that updates are working................................................................................................................ 132
Managing certica
tes
.................................................................................................................................................... 132
Viewing the certica
tes
........................................................................................................................................... 133
Replacing self-signed certica
tes with CA-signed certicates
.......................................................................... 133
Updating certica
tes about to expire
.....................................................................................................................139
Appendix A Expanding the stamp.................................................................................................................. 140
Compute expansion w
orkow
...................................................................................................................................... 140
Physical installation................................................................................................................................................... 141
Deploying compute expansion nodes......................................................................................................................141
Adding another server to backup infrastructure......................................................................................................... 141
Appendix B Performing a factory reset..........................................................................................................143
Access and account requirements............................................................................................................................... 143
Resetting the backup servers....................................................................................................................................... 144
Resetting the standalone backup host..................................................................................................................150
Resetting the storage cluster........................................................................................................................................153
Resetting the compute cluster..................................................................................................................................... 156
Clean up Active Directory and DNS records...............................................................................................................159
Clean up artifacts created by Azure Site Recovery................................................................................................... 159
Delete the VMM server...........................................................................................................................................160
Delete the IaaS VMs from failover if needed........................................................................................................ 160
Optionally delete the vault and the associated storage account........................................................................160
Appendix C Retrieving cluster names, host names, and IP addresses.............................................................161
Get cluster names........................................................................................................................................................... 161
Get the cluster IP addresses..........................................................................................................................................161
Example 1: Compute clusters...................................................................................................................................161
Example 2: File server clusters................................................................................................................................ 161
Example 3: SQL Server clusters............................................................................................................................. 162
Get host names and IP addresses for cluster hosts.................................................................................................. 162
Compute cluster host.............................................................................................................................................. 162
File server cluster..................................................................................................................................................... 162
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