Installing and upgrading HP Insight Management 7.2 on Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters

White paper | HP Insight Management 7.2
13 | March 2013
Getting started
This white paper documents how to install Insight Management on a new two-node Microsoft
Failover Cluster.
The major steps are as follows:
• Set up the failover environment
• Install the SQL Server 2012 instance in the cluster
• Install and configure Insight Management in the cluster
If a clustered Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise 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 2012 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 2012 services
• Advanced TCP/IP and DNS network concepts
In addition, readers must be familiar with installing and administering these products:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard and Failover Clustering
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 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. Virtual machines are
not supported. Each system must satisfy all the hardware and recommended requirements for
Insight Management and Windows Server 2012 Standard, including the processor, memory,
networking, storage, and disk space. For details, see the Management servers in the HP Insight
Management Support Matrix, and also see http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/ to validate
that servers and storage are certified for Windows Server 2012.