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

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Appendix E: Migrating an
Insight Management 7.2
Windows 2012 Cluster or a
7.2 Windows 2012
Standalone Server to a
Windows 2012 Cluster
This appendix provides an overview of the steps to migrate an Insight Management 7.2 Windows
2012 Cluster or a 7.2 Windows 2012 Standalone Server, called the Source system, to a new
Windows 2012 cluster, called the Target system. The source standalone server may be in a domain
or in a workgroup. The target cluster will always be in a domain. It contains references to
documents with detailed migration steps.
See the section Migration support matrix for Cluster CMS in the Data Migration of an existing
Microsoft Windows CMS to a new Insight Management 7.2 system white paper to find out the
supported migration configurations.
Migration overview
The following steps are a high level overview of the migration procedure for Insight Management
running in a two-node Failover Cluster. For exact migration steps, follow the Data Migration of an
existing Microsoft Windows CMS to a new Insight Management 7.2 system white paper.
Set up a separate target Windows Server 2012 cluster with the same patch level of Insight
Management 7.2 installed on it as is installed on the source. Then use the Insight Management
migration tools to migrate Insight Management data from the source Windows Server 2012 7.2
cluster or Standalone Server to the target Windows Server 2012 7.2 cluster in the same domain.
The detailed migration steps include steps for migrating a cluster in the Data migration of an
existing Microsoft Windows CMS to a new Insight Management 7.2 system white paper. The steps
are summarized as follows.
1. Follow the instructions in the main body of this document to create the new Windows
2012 cluster.
a. Install the new cluster in the same Windows domain as the source cluster or
the source standalone (if standalone server is setup in a domain). In 7.2, the
Data Migration Tool also supports migration from a source Standalone Server
in a workgroup to a target Insight Management cluster with local SQL Server
or with SQL Server installed on another cluster in the same domain.
b. Configure the new cluster systems, Insight Management, and the SQL server
with the same administrator passwords as in the source cluster. The SQL
Server may be installed on the same Insight Management cluster or on
another cluster in the same domain.