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

References

Refer to the following for more information regarding the topics discussed in this paper.

1. All documentation for Insight software, including HP Systems Insight Manager, Insight Control, and

Insight Dynamics, can be found through the following link:

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/unified/infolibraryis.html

2.ProLiant Support Pack downloads are found at:

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html

3. For HP boot from SAN information see the document Booting HP ProLiant servers from a storage

area network and go to , http://h18004.www1.hp.com/storage/networking/bootsan.html .

Microsoft

Cluster Service

1. Guide to Creating and Configuring a server Cluster under Windows Server 2003.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads rch for “Guide to Creating and Configuring a Server

Cluster under Windows Server 2003”)

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2. “Maximum number of supported nodes in a cluster” (article ID: 288778).

http://support.microsoft.com ch for “Maximum number of supported nodes in a cluster”) (sear

3. “How to add a registry value to a Windows Server 2003-based computer that you start from a

SAN so that the startup disk, the pagefile disks, and the cluster disks are all on the same SAN

fabric” (article ID: 886569).

http://support.microsoft.com rch for “How to add a registry

value to a Windows Server 2003-based computer that you start from a SAN so that the startup

disk, the pagefile disks, and the cluster disks are all on the same SAN fabric”)

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4. Boot from SAN Cluster Registry Update utility (BFSCLRegUp.exe).

http://www.hp.com ect

Support & Troubleshooting, then Business Support Center, then search for “Boot from SAN

Cluster Registry Update utility”)

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5. “How to configure Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator on a Windows Server 2003

cluster” (article ID: 301600).

http://support.microsoft.com rch for “How to configure

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator on a Windows Server 2003 cluster”)

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6. “How to enable network DTC access in Windows Server 2003” (article ID: 817064).

http://support.microsoft.com ch for “How to enable network DTC access in

Windows Server 2003”)

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