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

White paper | HP Insight Management 7.2
7 | March 2013
Abstract
Using Failover Clustering with HP Insight Management is a simple way of achieving redundancy,
availability, load balancing, and failover capability for this powerful management software. This
white paper is intended to assist IT professionals with one or more of the following:
1. Install Insight Management 7.2 for ProLiant from its DVD distribution onto a Microsoft
Windows-based Central Management Server (CMS) to create a highly available
environment. This white paper explains how to configure the CMS as a two-node
Windows Server 2012 Standard Failover Cluster. The paper also explains how to install
an instance of SQL Server 2012 on the same cluster. Alternately, you can use an existing
instance of a supported release of SQL Server from another cluster in the same domain.
The main body of this paper consists of this installation process.
2. Upgrade an existing clustered installation of Insight Software 6.2 or a later release to
Insight Management 7.2. Appendix B: Upgrading clustered Insight Management contains
steps you must follow. If you are familiar with the installation process, go directly there;
otherwise, you might benefit from reading the entire document. The upgrade process
assumes you have followed the steps in the white paper Installing and upgrading to HP
Insight Software 6.2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters with SQL Server 2008
for high availability or a later white paper to create the cluster you are upgrading.
3. Apply an Insight Management Incremental Update to an existing cluster implementation
of Insight Management 7.2. Appendix C: Applying Insight Management Incremental
Updates contains background information on Insight Management updates and running
the incremental update installer. This assumes you have followed the steps in this white
paper to create the cluster you are upgrading.
4. Add new products to an existing cluster implementation of Insight Management 7.2.
Appendix B: Upgrading clustered Insight Management contains the steps you must
follow. If you are familiar with the installation process, go directly there; otherwise, you
might benefit from reading the entire document. This assumes you have followed the
steps in this white paper to create the cluster you are upgrading.
5. Migrate an existing Windows 2012 standalone server or cluster system to a new
Windows 2012 cluster system, where both the source and target systems are installed
with the same level of Insight Management 7.2. Appendix E: Migrating an Insight
Management 7.2 Windows 2012 Cluster or a 7.2 Windows 2012 Standalone Server to a
Windows 2012 Cluster describes this procedure. (Migration from a Windows 2003 to a
Windows 2008 R2 Cluster is not supported in Insight Management 7.2.)
Important: Windows Server 2003 clustering was last supported with the Insight Management 6.2
release. Releases after the Insight Management 6.2 release do not support Windows Server 2003
clustering.
Note: If you need to provide high availability for Systems Insight Manager alone, you might opt to
use the white paper mentioned below instead of this one. If you need high availability, now or later,
for several Insight Management products, use the instructions in this document. This document
installs from the Insight Management DVD distribution. The following paper deploys clustering
only for Systems Insight Manager from its distribution:
Deploying HP SIM 7.x on MSCS Clusters on Windows Server 2008 SP2 with SQL Server 2008 SP1