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
Table 19. DPM database
DPM Server Name SQL Server Instance Name Database Name
<
Prex>DMPO# MSDPMDB DPMDB_<Prex>DPMO#
NOTE
: DPM is used to back up the system databases in the MSDPMDB instance.
DPM protection groups
The following table provides information about the default protection groups for the infrastructure components:
Table 20. DPM protection groups
Protection Group Data Sources
InfraDBPG Instance level protection of all management infrastructure databases. These
include da
tabases for VMM, Operations Manager, SPF, Windows Azure Pack,
SMA, and WSUS. Also protects the system databases on the DPM instance.
InfraVMPG Protects all management infrastructure VMs.
When you protect tenant VMs, a protection group named TenantVMs is created.
Disable machine account password rotation on management
VMs
Dell recommends that you disable machine account password rotation on all management VMs. If machine account password rotation is
enabled, this can cause the r
ecovery of management VMs to fail. If you recover a VM to a point in time that occurs before a machine
account password reset occurred, logging on to the VM by using domain credentials fails with the error, "The trust relationship between
this workstation and the primary domain failed."
To avoid this failure, disable machine account password rotation on management VMs. To do this, a domain administrator can congure the
Domain Member: Maximum age for machine account password Group Policy setting at the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft OU
level. For more information, see
Domain member: Disable machine account password changes in Microsoft TechNet.
Protecting tenant VMs
An important feature of Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft is tenant VM protection. By default, tenant VMs are not protected. You
must use a runbook t
o add them to a protection group in DPM.
Adding tenant VMs to backup
You must run the
Protect-TenantVMs runbook to manage tenant VM protection
This runbook adds up to 75 newly created VMs to a protection group in DPM. You should run this runbook manually or through a scheduled
task once each day. After a tenant VM is added to a protection group, by default:
• The tenant VM is con
gured for daily disk backup (10:00 PM), with a retention period of seven days.
• If cloud backup is enabled, the Azure backup starts at 6:00 AM daily with a retention period of 20 days.
The Protect-TenantVMs runbook is designed to protect 75 new VMs per run per day to ensure the following:
70 Operations