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

<Role Type="DPM" DeploymentStatus=" DomainJoined" Name="S20DPM01" BackupHostName="S20B01"
ConfigurationID="02651dd9-3028-45a8-9188-9997aa816418" Password="">
<IPv4Addresses>
<IPv4Address NetworkId="Management">10.10.20.32</IPv4Address>
</IPv4Addresses>
<BackupVhd NumberOfVHDs="20" VhdSize="1024" />
</Role>
<Role Type="DPM" DeploymentStatus="DomainJoined" Name="S20DPM02
" BackupHostName="S20B01"
ConfigurationID="b7a1b6bd-23ff-4f4b-b68e-20ac5e19d005" Password="">
d If you are running version 1.1 or later, do the following:
1 In the <
BackupVMs> section, if the following line exists, remove it for each DPM VM:
<BackupVhd NumberOfVHDs="20" VhdSize="1024" />
2 Search for the <
BackupDisk> section. Note the size values for XXXX and YYYY, and then replace the following:
<BackupDisk>
<Volumes>
<Volume Type="Scratch" Size="XXXX" />
<Volume Type="Backup" Size="YYYY" />
<Volume Type="Backup" Size="YYYY" />
<Volume Type="Backup" Size="YYYY" />
</Volumes>
</BackupDisk>
With this—updating with the same values for XXXX and YYYY that were used previously:
<BackupDisk>
<Volumes>
<Volume Type="Scratch" Size="XXXX" />
<Volume Type="Backup" Size="YYYY" NumberOfVolumesPerDPM="3" />
</Volumes>
<BackupVhd NumberOfVHDsPerDPM="20" VhdSize="1024" />
</BackupDisk>
10 Set the password eld in the .xml le f
or the backup host.
a In a Windows PowerShell session, run the following script to set the $password variable to the password you want to set.
password = "YourPassword"
ConvertTo-SecureString $password -AsPlainText -Force |
ConvertFrom-SecureString
b Copy the output of this script.
c In the .XML le
, search for the backup host name, and paste the output from the previous step between the quotes in the
Password="" eld.
<BackupConfiguration>
<Nodes>
<Node Name="S20B01" DeploymentStatus="DomainJoined" ConfigurationID="828bc360-fd65-4304-
bc50-81ea4027ad7f" Password="
PasswordOutput
"
SerialNumber="22PGD42">
For example:
<BackupConfiguration>
<Nodes>
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