Installing and upgrading HP Insight Management 7.2 on Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters

White paper | HP Insight Management 7.2
21 | March 2013
Step #
Step Description
Notes
3 Connect networks
and storage:
http://technet.mic
rosoft.com/en-
us/library/cc7707
23.aspx
Important:
Use the Microsoft Disk Management snap-in
described to Online, Initialize, and then create a New Simple
Volume… for only disk W:, the witness disk. The volume type
for shared disks must be Basic. MBR or GPT partitions can be
used. When the cluster is created in step
5, there is no user
control of which disk is selected to be the witness disk. By
configuring only disk W:, you will force it to be selected.
The Network binding order on both systems should be
public network first. For more information, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955963.
The full computer names of the cluster nodes should include
the cluster domain name to avoid a “disjointed namespace
configuration.” See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952247.
Be sure that the appropriate ports are open on active firewalls
or disable the firewalls temporarily.
4 Validate a New or
Existing Failover
Cluster:
http://technet.mic
rosoft.com/en-
us/library/cc7724
50.aspx
and
http://technet.mic
rosoft.com/en-
us/library/jj13424
4.aspx
If the cluster’s domain controllers are on the private network,
the network binding order should remain public first, then
private. However, this may produce a warning for the Network
binding order test. If this occurs, it is acceptable to proceed.
5 Create a New
Failover Cluster:
http://blogs.msdn.
com/b/clustering/
archive/2012/05/
01/10299698.asp
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If you are creating a cluster using the client access points from
a previously “destroyed” cluster and receive errors while doing
so, use Active Directory (Start  Administrative Tools 
Active Directory Users and Computers) to delete the entries
for these client access points from the Computers folder.
(Destroying a cluster does not delete these entries from the
Computers folder.)
In the wizard screen titled Access Point for Administering the
Cluster, enter the IP address and network name you have
provisioned for the Failover Cluster. This white paper uses
15.199.242.161 and CMS-C16-CLUSTER.
The Quorum model for your two-node cluster is Node and
Disk Majority.
Upon completion of cluster creation you should see a screen similar to Figure 3.
Figure 3: Create Cluster Wizard Summary screen