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
Microsoft-provided software
Table 1. Microsoft software
Product/Software Name Purpose TechNet Library Reference
Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition The operating system on all physical hosts
and VMs
.
Windows Server 2012 R2
System Center Virtual Machine Manager
(
VMM) 2012 R2
Use to manage the virtualization hosts,
networking, and storage resources.
Virtual Machine Manager
System Center Operations Manager
(
SCOM) 2012 R2
Use to monitor the infrastructure.
Operations Manager
SQL Server 2014 Hosts the databases for infrastructure VMs
tha
t require SQL Server.
SQL Server 2014 Product Documentation
Windows Azure Pack Allows you to o
er the IaaS services to your
users, through a self-service cloud.
Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server
System Center Data Protection Manager
(DPM) 2
012 R2
Use to back up both management
infrastructure and tenant VMs.
Data Protection Manager
System Center Endpoint Protection Provides antimalware services to the
ph
ysical hosts and infrastructure VMs.
Endpoint Protection Client
Service Management Automation (SMA) Allows you to automate the creation,
monit
oring, and deployment of resources in
your Windows Azure Pack environment.
Service Management Automation
Service Provider Foundation (SPF) Exposes a web service that interacts with
VMM. This allo
ws the Windows Azure Pack
portals to interact with the VMM to enable
the IaaS capabilities in System Center 2012
R2.
Service Provider Foundation
NOTE
: The System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) runs separately on hosts outside the initial Dell Hybrid Cloud System
for Microsoft stamp.
Dell-provided software
Table 2. Software
Product/Software Name Purpose More Information
User interface and middle layer
• Guides deployment w
orkow
• Gathers data and generates manifest
• Adds compute chassis (4 sleds per
chassis
)
Provided in the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for
Microsoft Cloud Platform System Standard
Administrators Guide
Dell Server Management Pack Suite
(DSMPS
)
Provides hardware health information to the
System Center Operations Manager
Dell Server Management Pack Suite
8 Overview