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

Getting started

This white paper documents how to install Insight Management on a new two-node Microsoft Failover

Cluster.

The major steps are:

• Set up the failover environment

• Install SQL Server 2008 R2 in the cluster

• Install and configure Insight Management in the cluster

If a clustered Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise named instance exists in the same domain but

in a different cluster than the one in which Insight Management is to run, you may use this instance

and skip the installation of a new SQL Server 2008 R2 instance in the Insight Management cluster. In

this case, you can also skip the allocation of the client access point IP addresses and network names,

and the shared disks for Microsoft SQL Server and for Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator.

Otherwise, the SQL Server instance created below will be used to host the databases required by

Insight Management.

Target audience

It is assumed that readers of this document have an excellent understanding of the following concepts

and services:

• Basic clustering concepts

• Basic Windows Server 2008 R2 services

• Advanced TCP/IP and DNS network concepts

In addition, readers must be familiar with installing and administering these products:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Failover Clustering

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, particularly named instances

Hardware, software, storage, systems, and network requirements

This white paper discusses installing and configuring a cluster using the following products and

resources.

Hardware

Two HP ProLiant physical servers with attached shared storage are needed. VM servers are not

supported. Each system must satisfy all the hardware and recommended requirements for Insight

Management and Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, including processor, memory, networking,

storage, and disk space. For details, see Central Management Server requirements in the

HP Insight

Management Support Matrix, and http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/ to validate servers and

storage that are certified for Windows Server 2008 R2.

If the servers are ProLiant Server Blades, it is a best practice to locate them in enclosures that will not

be managed by the Insight Management software that runs on them.