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

Appendix C: Applying Insight Management Incremental

Updates

This appendix describes how to apply an Insight Management incremental update (patch) to Insight

Management in a failover cluster.

An Insight Management incremental update is a patch that is applied to a major release. For

example, an Insight Management 7.0 update is a patch for Insight Management 7.0. Insight

Management 7.0 must already be installed before installing an Insight Management 7.0 update. After

installing the Insight Management Incremental Update, the Insight Management Software Patches can

be installed, if applicable. See

Appendix D: Applying Insight Management Software Patches for more

information about installing an Insight Management Software Patch.

Best Practice:

Applying the Incremental Update as part of a release upgrade is

recommended due to time efficiency.

Testing for this paper focuses on major releases such as Insight Management 7.0. Not all updates are

tested in a cluster environment. Only install an update if you have good cause to do so.

You can install an update at the following times:

• During a fresh install of a major Insight Management release.

• During an upgrade to a major Insight Management release.

• After installing an Insight Management major release, you can apply an incremental update to an

existing Insight Management installation.

The rest of this appendix contains an overview of installing an update at each of these three times.

Also, it contains information about running the incremental update installer.

Option 1: Installing an Incremental Update during a fresh install

The main body of this white paper describes installing Insight Management in a cluster. It also

discusses applying an incremental update during a fresh install. The steps from the main body of the

white paper are summarized as follows.

1. Create a two-node failover cluster with Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator and

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise installed.

2. Install Insight Management 7.0 on the primary system. Immediately afterwards, install the Insight

Management 7.0 update on the primary system. Make sure that the secondary system is down

while installing Insight Management 7.0 and the update.

3. Install Insight Management 7.0 on the secondary system. Immediately afterwards, install the

Insight Management update on the secondary system. Make sure the primary system is down

while installing Insight Management 7.0 and the update.

4. Add cluster resources for Insight Management, complete the Insight Management configuration,

and validate the installation.