HP StorageWorks Application Recovery Manager Installation and Licensing Guide (T4395-96002, February 2008)

Installing Application Recovery Manager on Your Network
Installing Application Recovery Manager on Microsoft Cluster Server
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NOTE When you are installing an Application Recovery Manager Cell Manager
as cluster-aware in a Microsoft Cluster environment, the Application
Recovery Manager User Account must be a domain user account, which
has all of the above mentioned user rights.
TIP An account with administrator rights on all the cluster systems is
required for a Cluster Server installation. It is recommended that you
use this account to install Application Recovery Manager as well. Invalid
user rights may result in Application Recovery Manager services
running in the standard, instead of the cluster-aware, mode.
Before you start installing the Cell Manager software on a cluster, check
the requirements:
✓ A cluster must be installed properly with all of its functionality. For
example, you must be able to move groups from one to another node
as many times as needed, with no problems with shared disk(s).
✓ At least one group in the cluster should have a <File Share>
resource defined. Application Recovery Manager will install its
database components on this <File Share> resource. Refer to the
cluster specific documentation in order to define <File Share>
resource. Note that the file share name of the <File Share> resource
cannot be OmniBack.
✓ If the virtual server does not exist in the same group as the <File
Share> resource group, a new virtual server must be created using a
free registered IP address and associating a network name with it.
✓ The <File Share> resource where Application Recovery Manager is
to be installed must have the IP Address, Network Name, and
Physical Disk set among the <File Share> dependencies. This is
necessary to ensure that Application Recovery Manager cluster group
will be able to run on any node independently of any other group.
✓ Ensure that only the cluster administrator has access to the <File
Share> resource and that he has full access to it.
✓ Each system of the cluster should be up and running properly.