Installing and upgrading to HP Insight Software 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 R2 MSCS for high availability

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Abstract
This white paper is intended to assist IT professionals in installing Insight Software release 6.0 for
ProLiant from its DVD distribution onto a Microsoft
®
Windows
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-based Central Management Server
(CMS) to create a highly available environment. The CMS on ProLiant may be configured in a
Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) implementation on two nodes. Using Windows Server 2003
Enterprise Edition with HP Insight software can be a simple way of achieving redundancy,
availability, load balancing, and failover capability from this powerful management software.
Introduction
The HP Insight software media set provides an integrated installer to quickly and accurately deploy,
configure, integrate, and update HP Insight software products. Refer to
Appendix B
Insight Software 6.0 include:
for an overview of
the Insight Dynamics and Insight Control products. The individual components delivered with HP
• HP Insight Software Installer: A wizard-based installer used to simplify the installation,
configuration, and integration of HP Insight software.
• HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM): The Central Management Server (CMS) that provides unified
foundation management services for HP servers, storage, and network resources from a single
console. HP SIM delivers centralized fault, configuration, inventory, performance management,
warranty details, automated service call initiation, and troubleshooting information. HP SIM is built
according to industry standards to manage HP and non-HP infrastructure resources.
• HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager: Graphical user interface (GUI) used to discover, monitor, and
administer HP BladeSystem enclosures and managed components, including servers (ProLiant and
Integrity), storage, power, and cooling. This component is installed with HP SIM.
• HP Insight Remote Support Advanced: (Not provided on the Insight Software media set; link to
download is provided instead.) Remote support tool that provides remote monitoring to supplement
local monitoring of HP SIM. It also provides real time hardware event monitoring and secure event
submission to HP Support to help identify and prevent potentially critical problems on HP ProLiant
servers, Linux-based Integrity servers, and their associated internal devices.
• HP Insight Control: HP Insight Control is essential server management software that unlocks the
management capabilities built into your HP ProLiant servers. Insight Control delivers powerful
capabilities that enable you to proactively manage ProLiant server health—whether physical or
virtual, deploy ProLiant servers quickly, improve power consumption, and control ProLiant servers
from anywhere.
– HP Insight Control power management: Provides power consumption and thermal output
monitoring to enhance data center power and cooling. Includes power regulation policies for
groups of HP ProLiant servers.
– HP Insight Control server deployment: The tool that configures and deploys multiple servers
quickly and predictably in an unattended fashion using scripts and system images. Includes
predefined scripts to configure HP server hardware and deploy operating systems for Windows
and Linux platforms.
– HP Insight Control performance management: Performance monitoring tool that enables Insight
Control to proactively detect, analyze, and report performance bottlenecks on HP ProLiant and
Integrity servers, Modular Storage Array storage, and VMware and Microsoft virtual machines,
enabling server workloads to run at peak performance levels.