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

White paper | HP Insight Management 7.2
90 | March 2013
HP infrastructure software, servers, and storage
• All documentation for Insight Management, including HP Systems Insight Manager,
Insight Control, and Matrix, can be found through the following link:
http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/docs
Also, the following white papers can be found on this website:
o Backing up and restoring HP Insight Management 7.1 Central Management
System (Windows)
o Data migration of an existing Microsoft Windows CMS to a new Insight
Management 7.1 system
o Installing and upgrading HP Insight Software 7.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2
Failover Clusters with SQL Server 2008 for high availability
o Installing and upgrading HP Insight Software 6.3 on Windows Server 2008 R2
Failover Clusters with SQL Server 2008 for high availability
o Installing and upgrading to HP Insight Software 6.2 on Windows Server 2003
R2 MSCS for high availability
• For Support Pack for ProLiant (SPP) downloads: http://www.hp.com/go/spp/download.
• For ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) downloads:
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html. Select Download drivers and
software (and firmware), enter ProLiant Support Pack into the product field
and click the search button (>>). On the next page click Microsoft Windows Server
2012.
• For HP Boot from SAN information, see HP Boot from SAN Configuration Guide and Boot
from SAN.
• Download HP HPIO DSM for Windows from HP website. Go to Other Multi-Path
Software-Windows – Download drivers and software - specify product name; or, go to
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support_task.html, select Download drivers
and software, and search for Windows MPIO DSM. Download and install the HP
MPIO DSM Manager from the same location. Install the DSM first, and then the DSM
Manager.
Microsoft Failover Clusters
• For certified HP server and storage hardware for Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters,
see http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/. For a cluster to qualify for support, all
server and storage components must have a Windows Server 2012 logo.
• Failover Clusters (top level) at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/cc754482.aspx
• Checklist: Create a Failover Cluster at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/cc755009.aspx
• The Network binding order should be public network first. For more information see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955963
• Full computer names of the cluster nodes should include the cluster domain name to
avoid a “disjointed namespace configuration.” See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952247 Understanding Backup and Recovery Basics
for a Failover Cluster, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771973.aspx