Installing and upgrading HP Insight Management 7.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters

Revision history

Version Date Description of Revision

1.0 April 2012 First release of white paper

Abstract

Using Failover Clustering with HP Insight Management is a simple way of achieving redundancy,

availability, load balancing, and failover capability for this powerful management software.

This white paper is intended to assist IT professionals with one or more of the following:

1. Install Insight Management 7.0 for ProLiant from its DVD distribution, onto a Microsoft®

Windows®-based Central Management Server (CMS) to create a highly available environment.

This white paper explains how to configure the CMS as a two-node Windows Server 2008 R2

Failover Cluster. The paper also explains how to install an instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 on

the same cluster. Alternatively, you can use an existing instance of a supported release of SQL

Server from another cluster in the same domain. The main body of this paper consists of this

installation process.

2. Upgrade an existing clustered installation of Insight Software 6.1 Update 1 or a later release to

Insight Management 7.0.

Appendix B: Upgrading clustered Insight Management contains steps

you must follow. If you are familiar with the installation process, go directly there; otherwise, you

might benefit from reading the entire document. The upgrade process assumes you have followed

the steps in the white paper

Installing HP Insight Software 6.1 Update 1 on Windows Server

2008 R2 Failover Clusters with SQL Server 2008 for high availability or a succeeding white

paper to create the cluster you are upgrading.

3. Apply an Insight Management Incremental Update to an existing cluster implementation of Insight

Management 7.0.

Appendix C: Applying Insight Management Incremental Updates contains

background information on Insight Management updates and running the incremental update

installer. This assumes you have followed the steps in this white paper to create the cluster you are

upgrading.

4. Add new products to an existing cluster implementation of Insight Management 7.0.

Appendix B:

Upgrading clustered Insight Management contains the steps you must follow. If you are familiar

with the installation process, go directly there; otherwise, you might benefit from reading the

entire document. This assumes you have followed the steps in this white paper to create the cluster

you are upgrading.

5. Migrate an existing Windows 2008 R2 standalone server or cluster system to a new Windows

2008 R2 cluster system, where both the source and target systems are installed with the same

level of Insight Management 7.0.

Appendix E: Migrating an Insight Management 7.0 Windows

2008 R2 Cluster or a 7.0 Windows 2008 R2 Standalone Server to a Windows 2008 R2 Cluster

describes this procedure. (Migration from a Windows 2003 to a Windows 2008 R2 Cluster is

not supported in Insight Management 7.0.)

IMPORTANT:

Windows Server 2003 clustering was last supported with the Insight

Management 6.2 release. Releases after the Insight Management 6.2

release do not support Windows Server 2003 clustering.