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

White paper | HP Insight Management 7.2
24 | March 2013
Installing Microsoft SQL
Server 2012 Enterprise
A clustered instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise or Standard is required for Insight
Management components to become highly available. If you already have installed a suitable
named instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2012, you can skip to Installing Insight Management
components on the cluster and specify this instance when prompted.
In this section, Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) and Microsoft SQL Server
2012 are installed. It is assumed that you already have a working two-node cluster with available
storage and the client access point resources for both MSDTC and SQL server.
The installation of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise or Standard Edition is necessary only if
you are running SQL Server in the same cluster with Insight Management. The following
instructions cover the installation of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise (previous versions of
this white paper covered installation of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition with Support
Pack and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with Support Pack.)
For additional information on available service packs for Microsoft SQL Server 2012, see How to
obtain the latest service pack for SQL Server 2012, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2755533.