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

Appendix B: Upgrading clustered Insight Management

This appendix describes how to upgrade Insight Management in a cluster environment. The upgrade

procedure can be used to do the following:

1. Upgrade from Insight Software 6.1 Update 1 or a succeeding release to Insight Management

7.0.

2. Add new products to an existing installation of Insight Management 7.0.

3. Apply an Insight Management 7.0 incremental update to Insight Management 7.0.

4. Upgrade directly from Insight Software 6.1 Update 1 or a succeeding release, to Insight

Management 7.0.x by installing Insight Management 7.0 together with the incremental update

and Insight Management Software Patches.

Upgrade overview

The following steps are a high level overview of the upgrade procedure for Insight Management

running in a two-node failover cluster. For details, see

Upgrade steps.

1. Back up the cluster including the Insight Management and SQL Server shared disks. See

Backing

up and restoring HP Insight Management 7.0 Central Management Server (Windows) White

Paper for more information.

2. Install any prerequisites for the new software on both cluster nodes.

3. Upgrade the primary system.

a. Ensure the secondary system is shut down.

b. After removing Insight Management services from cluster control, run Administrative Tools

Services to start the Insight Management services on the primary system.

c. Upgrade Insight Management on the primary system. You can upgrade to a new major

release, install new products, and/or apply an incremental update.

4. Restore the Insight Management and SQL shared disks to their pre-upgrade states.

5. Upgrade the secondary system.

a. Ensure the primary system is shut down.

b. After removing Insight Management services from cluster control, run Administrative Tools

Services to start the Insight Management services on the secondary system.

c. Upgrade Insight Management on the secondary system. You can upgrade to a new major

release, install new products, and/or apply an incremental update.

d. Stop the Insight Management services on the secondary system.

6. Use Failover Cluster Manager to update cluster resources for the new software.

7. Start Systems Insight Manager on the primary system.

8. Perform validation and final configuration steps.

Note:

The Insight Management installer stops and starts the Insight Management

services. Before running the installer, you must use Failover Cluster

Manager to take the Insight Management (cms-c2-hpsim) service offline so

that failover clustering is not monitoring the service. You do not need to

take offline the SQL Server service or any other service. For details, see

Upgrade steps.

Expected downtime

During the upgrade, Insight Management services are not available.