Administrator Guide
Monitoring capacity
To ensure high-availability for your plans and services and help keep your tenants productive, you need to monitor the performance of your
resources.
Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft uses Operations Manager and Operational Insights to monitor the health of your cloud
infrastructure. See the Operations chapter of this guide for more information.
Activating guest operating systems
By default, tenant VMs that are running Windows Server 2012 R2 are automatically activated by using Automatic Virtual Machine
Activation (AVMA), if an AVMA key was used. For more information about AVMA, including the AVMA keys that you should use for tenants
in VM templates for Windows Server 2012 R2-based images, see Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (http://technet.microsoft.com/
library/dn303421.aspx) in the Microsoft TechNet Library.
If you want to oer tenants the option of deploying earlier Windows-based operating systems, you must use a Windows Server Key
Management Server (KMS) to activate those products. If you already have a KMS server, you can use the existing server.
To set up a KMS host in your environment, see the blog post Installing Volume Activation Services Role in Windows Server 2012 to setup a
KMS Host(http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2013/03/14/installing-volume-activation-services-role-in-windows-server-2012-
to-setup-a-kms-host.aspx).
NOTE: The same steps apply to Windows Server 2012 R2.
Keep in mind that if a tenant does not connect the VM network to a gateway, for example in an isolated development environment, the VM
is not able to reach the KMS server because the VM cannot reach the internet. In this scenario, there are the following options:
• Use a volume licensed version of the operating system in the image.
• Specify the KMS Client Key in the VM template. For a list of KMS client keys, see Appendix A: KMS Client Setup Keys (http://
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612867.aspx).
VM template requirements (pre-Windows Server 2012 R2)
If you create pre-Windows 2012 R2 images to use in VM templates for tenant use, you must do the following:
• Use a volume licensed version of the operating system in the image.
• Specify the KMS Client Key in the VM template. For a list of KMS client keys, see Appendix A: KMS Client Setup Keys (http://
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612867.aspx).
Optional conguration
The following procedures are optional.
Customizing the tenant portal
For information about how to customize the Windows Azure Pack management portal for tenants, see Windows Azure Pack custom
theming (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dn448611.aspx) in the MSDN Library.
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