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

White paper | HP Insight Management 7.2
9 | March 2013
o All system components (server, storage, HBA, MPIO, etc.) have been certified
under the Windows Server Logo Program for Windows Server 2012. See the
following Microsoft website: http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/
o The fully configured solution must pass the Validate test in the Failover
Cluster Manager.
Using a CMS cluster as part of a federated CMS
environment
A federated CMS environment relates specifically to HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration. In a
federated CMS environment multiple CMS servers cooperatively share the responsibility for
managing a larger number of resources than can be managed by a single server. A federated CMS
environment is comprised of one Primary CMS and up to four Secondary CMSs. A CMS cluster may
be part of a federated CMS environment as follows:
• The Primary CMS must be the first CMS cluster in a federated environment.
• After the Primary CMS is a cluster, any Secondary CMS may also be a cluster.
• Each clustered CMS resides in a different Windows cluster.
• There may be both standalone and clustered CMSs in a federation.
Table 1 lists the Insight Management components that are supported in a CMS cluster and are
required, optional, or prohibited when a CMS cluster is part of a federated environment.
Components supported in a highly available environment
Table 1. Insight Management components supported in a highly available environment
Insight Management
Component
1
Supported
in CMS HA
cluster
Supported in
Primary CMS cluster
(federated environment)
Supported in
Secondary CMS
cluster (federated
environment)
HP System Management
Homepage
1
Yes Required Required
WMI Mapper
2
Yes Required Required
HP Systems Insight
Manager
2
Yes Required Required
HP Version Control
Repository Manager
2
Yes Required Required
HP Insight Control server
deployment
1
No Prohibited Prohibited
HP Insight Control server
deployment SIM
integration module
3
No Prohibited Prohibited
HP Insight Control server
deployment Quiesce SIM
Plugin
3
No Prohibited Prohibited