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
Using Operations Manager
From the
Monitoring workspace in Operations Manager, you can view the health of the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft stamp and
its components.
Take time to familiarize yourself with what information is available in the various views and dashboards. For example, under Monitoring, you
can click Active Alerts to view all active alerts.
To view the health of the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft stamp, the best place to look is the Microsoft Cloud Dashboard.
Using the Microsoft Cloud Dashboard
In Operations Manager, the Microsoft Cloud Dashboard lets you quickly see whether any issues require your attention.
This dashboard consolidates health state and alerting views for:
• Compute—Hyper-V hosts
• Storage
• Management Services—the infrastructure VMs
• Backup
• Antimalware
• Tenant VMs
After you see the health state roll-up views, you can dig deeper by clicking individual tiles.
To access the dashboard:
1 Open the Operations Console.
2 In the Monitoring workspace, expand Microsoft Cloud Dashboard, and then click Microsoft Cloud Dashboard.
The dashboard displays a set of tiles. This display provides you with a quick view of system health. Each tile shows the number of
alerts and the health state.
Figure 31. Microsoft Cloud Dashboard
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