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

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Software
The software needed:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1, which includes:
o Failover Clustering
o Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1
• HP Insight Management 7.0 DVD #1 and DVD #2
• Update DVD, if installing Insight Management 7.0 update
• Additional software as specified in Requirements for non-OS software and Supported browsers in
the
HP Insight Management 7.0 Support Matrix
• ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) 8.60 or higher. To download PSPs for your OS and server model, go
to
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html
The software listed above reflects the preferred supported versions. For Windows Server and SQL
Server products, these down-level versions are also supported:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, without SP1 and with the hotfix download
described in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978527
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 with SP2 or SP3
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 without SP1
Storage
The storage disks needed along with the drive letters used for the examples in this white paper:
• Two private disks, one for each ProLiant system’s boot drive, disk C:
• One shared disk for the cluster witness, disk W:
• One shared disk for Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, disk T:
• One shared disk for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, disk S:
• One shared disk for the Insight Management program files, disk V:
HP recommends that SAN storage be used for boot disks as well as shared disks. See the document
HP Boot from SAN Configuration Guide, and also go to Boot from SAN.
In testing for this white paper, the disks for the cluster witness and Distributed Transaction Coordinator
were sized at 1 GB each.
Tip:
Create the shared disks W:, T:, S:, and V: on the SAN and present them
to the cluster nodes, but do not “online,” “initialize,” or “create” a volume
for any disk until instructed to do so in the following section,
Creating the
Failover Cluster.
Supporting Systems
It is assumed that an existing Active Directory domain infrastructure and DNS services suitable for
hosting the cluster are available. Multi-site clusters are not supported.
If the Insight Management SQL instance is to be hosted in another cluster, that cluster must be in the
same domain as the Insight Management cluster.