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

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Components supported in a highly-available environment

Table 1: Components supported in a highly-available environment

Insight software Component

Supported in HA

environment

Comment

HP System Management Homepage Yes Installed by default

WMI Mapper Yes Additional configuration

step

required

HP Systems Insight Manager Yes Additional configuration steps required

HP Version Control Yes Additional configuration steps required

HP Insight Control server deployment No

HP Insight Control server deployment supplement No

HP Insight Control server deployment SIM Integration No

Module

HP Insight managed system setup wizard Yes

HP Insight Remote Support Advanced software No

HP Insight Control power management Yes Additional configuration

step

required

HP Insight Control performance management Yes Additional configuration steps required

HP Insight Control virtual machine management Yes

HP Insight Control server migration Yes

HP Insight mxsynch Utility Yes

HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager Yes

HP Insight Dynamics capacity planning,

configuration, and workload management and HP

Insight Capacity Advisor Consolidation software

Yes Additional configuration

step

equi

HP Insight Dynamics infrastructure orchestration Yes Additional configuration

step

required

HP Insight Dynamics recovery management Yes

HP Insight Control licensing and reports Yes

HP Insight Software Advisor Yes

Insight software components run in a Microsoft Windows Server environment, using Microsoft SQL

Server on HP ProLiant servers. By installing Insight software components as clustered applications,

these management products can also be highly available. In an MSCS environment, a virtual server

name and associated IP address for the HP Systems Insight Manager service can be created as cluster

resources, allowing failover for higher availability in case of a system failure or planned shutdown.

Cluster resources are also created for other Insight software components, including those that are

bundled with Insight Control and Insight Dynamics, also allowing failover of these services.

Additionally, by distributing the load for Microsoft SQL Server and Insight software components on

separate systems, more efficient use can be made of cluster system resources.

This white paper describes the steps to install a highly available clustered version of Insight software

on HP ProLiant servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft SQL

Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. Refer to the

HP Insight Software Support Matrix details on the

hardware and software installation requirements for Insight software. This and other Insight software

documents can be found at

for

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/

unified/infolibraryis.html

HP Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack, formerly a part of Insight software, is not supported in the Insight software HA environment.