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

White paper | HP Insight Management 7.2
14 | March 2013
If the servers are ProLiant Server Blades, it is a best practice to locate them in separate enclosures
that will not be managed by the Insight Management software that runs on them.
Software
The following software is needed:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard, which includes:
o Failover Clustering
o Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise or Standard
• HP Insight Management 7.2 DVD #1 and DVD #2
• Update DVD, if installing any future Insight Management 7.2 update
• Additional software specified as requirements for non-OS software and supported
browsers in the HP Insight Management 7.2 Support Matrix
• One of the following:
o Support Pack for ProLiant (SPP)
o ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) and Smart Update Firmware DVD
Use of SPP is encouraged. The PSP will be phased out in the future. Refer to HP Insight
Management Support Matrix to know the supported version of SPP and PSP.
The software listed above reflects the preferred supported versions. For Windows Server and SQL
Server products, these earlier versions are also supported:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, with or without SP1. The hotfix
download described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978527 is required when SP1 is
not installed.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise with SP3
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with SP1 or SP2
Storage
The following storage disks with drive letters are 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, 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 see 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.
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