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 33. Online Protection enabled
Default backup schedule and retention policy
By default, all infrastructure components are protected by DPM with the following schedule:
Table 17. Backup
Backup Policy for: Target Backup Frequency Retention
Infrastructure VMs
Disk
Azure Backup—if opted in
Disk: Once per week; Saturday 8pm
Azure: Once per week; Sunday 8pm
Disk: 14 days
Azure: 4 weeks
Infrastructure databases
Disk
Azure Backup—if opted in
Disk: Every 4 hours
Azure: Daily—10:00 PM
Disk: 5 days
Azure: 10 days
NOTE: While these are the default settings, we recommend that you use the DPM Create Recovery Point Now option to back up
a VM’s databases before and after you make any conguration change.
By default, after you add a tenant VM to a protection group, tenant VMs are protected with the following schedule:
Table 18. Tenant VM backup schedule
Target Backup Frequency Retention
Disk Daily—10:00 PM 7 days
Azure Backup—if opted in Daily—6:00 AM 20 days
You can change the day of backup or time of day if you need to. If you change the schedule, make sure that you at least maintain the
f
ollowing backup frequency:
• For infrastructure VMs: Once a week backup with a two-week retention period
• For databases: Once every four hours backup with a v
e-day retention period
NOTE: Dell recommends that you do not change the number of recovery points because this impacts storage calculations.
DPM does not back up the DPM database. Instead, the DPM database is backed up through the Windows DPMDBBackup Task Scheduler
job
. The backup frequency is every 4 hours, and retention period is one day. The following table includes information about the DPM server
database:
Operations 69