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

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Insight Management Component
1
Supported in
CMS HA cluster
Supported in
Primary CMS cluster
(federated environment)
Supported in
Secondary CMS cluster
(federated environment)
HP Insight mxsync Utility
Yes Required Required
HP Virtual Connect Enterprise
Manager
Yes Required Required
HP Storage Provisioning Manager
Service
2
Yes Required Required
HP SPM Storage Module Yes Required Required
HP Matrix capacity planning,
configuration, and workload
management and HP Insight Capacity
Advisor Consolidation software
Yes Required Required
HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration Yes Required Prohibited
HP Matrix recovery management Yes Prohibited Prohibited
HP Insight Management Advisor Yes Required Required
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Not supported on a CMS cluster: HP Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack (formerly part of Insight Software)
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This component may require special post-installation configuration to run in a CMS cluster.
Note:
No components other than those described in this white paper are
supported in a CMS cluster. Specifically, not supported are: HP Command
View, HP Operations Orchestration, VMware vCenter and VMware
vSphere.
Insight Management components run on HP ProLiant servers in a Microsoft Windows Server
environment, using Microsoft SQL Server. HP requires the use of physical servers (not virtual
machines) to set up a Failover Cluster environment for the CMS. Installing Insight Management as a
clustered service increases its availability. The cluster monitors the Insight Management service. It can
restart a component of the service or move the whole service to another node when a failure is
detected. An administrator can also move all clustered services to another node, for example, so that
a server can be shut down for planned maintenance.
Additionally, more efficient use can be made of cluster capacity when Microsoft SQL Server and
Insight Management workloads are placed on different systems.
This white paper describes the steps to install Insight Management on a Microsoft Windows Server
2008 R2 Enterprise Failover Cluster with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise R2. See the
HP Insight
Management Support Matrix for details on the hardware and software installation requirements for
Insight Management. This and other Insight Management documents can be found at
http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/docs.
The relationship between the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise instances and Insight
Management is shown in
Figure 1.
• A Failover Cluster defines virtual servers. A virtual server has a unique static client-facing network
name and IP address that is registered with the DNS. This unique name and IP address is called a
client access point. The virtual server associates the client access point with a group of resources,
for example Windows services, that, at any time, may run on only one of the cluster’s systems
(physical servers). The group of resources is called a clustered service.