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

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

This appendix provides an overview of the steps to migrate an Insight Management 7.0 Windows

2008 R2 Cluster or a 7.0 Windows 2008 R2 Standalone Server, called the Source system, to a new

Windows 2008 R2 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

Data Migration of an existing Microsoft

Windows CMS to a new Insight Management 7.0 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 Software 7.0 system White Paper.

Set up a separate target Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster with the same patch level of Insight

Management 7.0 installed on it as is installed on the source. Then use the Insight Management

migration tools to migrate Insight Management data from the source 2008 R2 7.0 cluster or

Standalone Server to the target 2008 R2 7.0 cluster in the same domain.

The detailed migration steps including steps for migrating a cluster in the

Data migration of an existing

Microsoft Windows CMS to a new Insight Management 7.0 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 2008 R2

cluster with SP1.

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 7.0, 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.

2. On the source cluster or Standalone Server, follow the instructions in the

Data Migration of an

existing Microsoft Windows CMS to a new Insight Management 7.0 system White Paper to

perform the following:

a. Prepare the source CMS and run the export utility on one of the nodes in the Windows 2008

R2 cluster or on the Standalone Server.

b. Prepare the target CMS, copy the exported file from Source to Target Cluster node, and run

the import utility on one of the nodes in the Windows 2008 R2 cluster while the other cluster

node is shutdown.