Installing and upgrading to HP Insight Software 6.2 on Windows Server 2003 R2 MSCS for high availability

Create and name the resource groups. In the

Cluster Administrator

window, create new cluster

groups, one each for Insight Software and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. For each gro

up:

Use

CTRL G

File



New



Group

Enter the name of the group, for example

CMS

HA Group

SQL Group

Click

and

add the primary and secondary servers from the list of available

system

s to the preferred owners list.

Click

Finish

Figure 2 shows CMS

Group and SQL Group as created above.

Figure

Cluster Resource Groups

Create the physical disk resources for the Insight Software and SQL

resource groups

Continuing in the

Cluster Administrator

, for each of the resource groups just created (

CMS

Group and SQL Group

) add its shared disk resource. If you use an existing instance of Microsoft

SQL Server 2005, you need to create only the Insight Software disk resource. Table 2 relates the

group names, their disk resource names, and shared disk drive l

etters as used in this paper.