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
Product/Software Name Purpose More Information
Storage Enclosure CLI (SECLI)
• Updates the Dell PowerVault MD
st
orage enclosure rmware
• Monitors the modular disk (MD)
Staged on local disk; see Dell Storage
Enclosur
e Administrator’s Guide
BMC Utility
• Sets rm
ware
• Debugs (mostly BMC/iDRAC)
Staged on local disk: see Dell Storage
Enclosur
e Administrator's Guide
OpenManage Deployment Toolkit
• Sets rm
ware
• Debugs (rm
ware beyond BMC/iDRAC)
Staged on local disk; see
Dell Open Manage
Deplo
yment Toolkit
SupportAssist Gathers hardware and software information
f
or support group
Staged on local disk; see
SupportAssist
OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) OS level hardware health monitoring agent Staged on local disk; see OpenManage
Serv
er Administrator—OMSA
OpenManage Essential (OME) Support Assist Console Staged on local disk; see OpenManage
Essen
tials
Repository Manager (RM)
• Compiles bundle, a collection of server
rm
ware
• Can use out of band path to update
rm
ware
Staged on local disk; see
Dell OpenManage
R
epository Manager
Cloud services—optional
You can opt in to these Microsoft services during or after deployment.
During deployment of the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft, you are given the option to register for the following Microsoft Azure
services:
• Azure Operational Insights, available only in certain regions as seen when you Onboard to Azure Site Recovery.
• Azure Backup
• Operational Insights, also known as Operations Management Suite
Azure Site Recovery is available for opt-in only after deployment.
Instructions for how to opt in to these services are included in this guide.
Compute cluster
All of the physical compute nodes in a Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft stamp form a single compute cluster. The compute cluster
consist
s of the physical Hyper-V nodes that host the VMs for the management infrastructure and the tenant compute workloads. All of
these physical nodes run Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter edition (Server Core conguration).
The name of the compute cluster is <Prefix>CCL.
NOTE: The <Prefix>CCL
value that this guide uses for physical computer and VM names is a customer-specied prex for the
Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft stamp.
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