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
<Node Name="S20B01" DeploymentStatus="DomainJoined" ConfigurationID="828bc360-fd65-4304-
bc50-81ea4027ad7f"
Password="01000000d08c9ddf0115d1118c7a00c04fc297eb0100000012adbc74a67cfe48ac4404f29b4d43c
c000000000200000000001066000000010000200000001565d7d65f0ca2fcf0e0d82f24c481689ccdb7aa4d85
ac400906c7768e6228ba000000000e8000000002000020000000750649ad99b3809f7b66f9eb1ff4bb67afa10
8bac79372a56b53ca81ef235c5e30000000eb537f00952fc2d36d3821571b65fc7ccca26066e47eb5de0be691
9a3a24f08e693031d3b8928e1cfa00d32410dfacda40000000e53617e63be31270a1ed37cb2f54682f802a171
41153741f454be9b3ec7fc6fff1cc0e1a3ca2e56fb7f7af16c5d4a6fd71e0d91c742b38782e03a648c8eb39da
" SerialNumber="22PGD42">
d On the backup host, open a Windows PowerShell session as an elevated user, and then run the following commands to enable
the local administr
ator account, and to update to the same password that you specied for $password, in step 10a (that is, the
plain text password):
net user administrator /active:yes
net user administrator <password>
11 Set the password eld in the .xml le f
or the DPMs VMs.
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
NOTE
: If you want to use the same password as the backup host, you can skip this step and in step 10c, copy the
same encrypted password string.
b Copy the output of this script.
c Using the output of this script, search for node <BackupVMs> in the .xml le, and update the Password="" eld for all the
DPM VMs on that backup host.
d On the DPM that is not corrupted, run the following commands to enable the local administrator and to update the password.
Specify the same pass
word that you used for $password in step 11a (that is, the plain text password).
net user administrator /active:yes
net user administrator <password>
12 On the Console VM, update the registry subkey for deployment status.
a Open Registry Editor.
b Locate the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cloud Solutions\Deployment\Status
c Update the values for the backup host and the DPM VMs from
Deployed to DomainJoined. For example:
88 Operations