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

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If an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition already exists in the cluster, skip th
e
section referenced above when it is encounter in this document and go to
Installing Insight Software
components on the cluster
for steps to install Insight Software components, and the process to make
them highly available.
Target audience
It is assumed
that readers of this document have an excellent understanding of the following
concepts and services:

Basic clustering concepts

Basic
Microsoft
Windows
2003
services

Advanced TCP/IP and DNS network concepts
In addition, readers must be familiar with insta
lling and administering these products:

Microsoft Windows Server
2003 Enterprise Edition and MSCS

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Enterprise
Edition
, particularly named instances
Hardware, software, storage, systems, and network requirements
This white paper dis
cusses installing and configuring a cluster using the following products and
resources:
Hardware
Two HP ProLiant servers with attached shared storage are needed.
HP ProLiant G7 servers cannot
be used as they do not support Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
Ea
ch system must satisfy all the
hardware and recommended requirements for Insight Software and
MSCS
, including processor,
memory, networking, and dis
k space. For
see
Central Management Server requirements
in
HP
Insight Software Support Matrix
, and
Cluster Solutions
at
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/
.
Software

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
R2 Enterprise
Edition Service Pack 2 for x86
, which includes
–
Microsoft Cluster Service
–
Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Enterprise
Edition with Service Pack 3

HP Insight Software 6.2
DVD #1 and DVD #2

Additional software as
specified in
Requirements for non
-
OS software and Supported browsers
in
the
HP Insight Software 6.1 Support Matrix

ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) 8.50 or higher. To download PSPs for your OS and server m
odel, go
to
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html
Storage
The storage disks needed along with the drive letters used for the examples in this white paper:

Two private disks, one for
each ProLiant system’s boot
disk
,
drive
C:

One shared disk for the
Insight Software program files,
drive
V
:

One shared di
sk for Microsoft SQL Server 2005
,
drive
S: