Installing and upgrading to HP Insight Software 6.2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters with SQL Server 2008 for high availability

3
Abstract
Using Fai
l
over Cluste
r
ing
w
ith HP Insight
Sof
t
ware
is
a
simple
way
of
a
c
hieving
red
u
ndan
c
y,
availability,
load
balan
c
ing,
and
failover
c
apabil
i
ty
for this
powerful management
software.
This
white p
a
per is inten
d
ed to assist
I
T profess
i
onals
with one or
m
ore of the
f
ol
l
owing:
1
.
Install Insight
Software
r
elease 6.2 for P
r
oLiant from i
t
s DVD distribu
t
ion onto
a M
i
cr
o
s
of
t
®
Window
s
®
-
b
a
s
ed
C
entral Manage
m
ent Server (
C
MS)
to crea
t
e a highly available
environ
m
en
t
.
T
his
white p
a
per explains
how to
c
onfig
u
re the
CMS
as a two
-
node Windows Server 2008
R
2
Failover
Clus
t
er. The paper also explains how to
install an
instance of SQL Server
2008
on the
same c
l
us
t
er. Alternati
v
ely, y
o
u may u
s
e an existing i
n
stance
o
f SQL
Server 20
0
8 from another
c
luster.
The
m
a
in body
of this paper
c
oncerns this
installation
process.
2
.
Upgrade
an existing
c
l
u
stered
installation
of
Insight Software 6.1
Update
1 to 6.2.
Appendix B
in
this paper c
o
ntains the steps you need to follow. If
you are
familiar
with t
h
e inst
a
llation process,
go dir
e
ctly t
h
ere; othe
r
w
i
s
e
,
you may benefit f
r
om re
a
d
ing the entire
document. This assumes you
have f
ollowed
the steps in the white paper,
Installing
HP
Insight
Software
6.1
Update
1
on
Windo
w
s
Se
r
ver
2008
R2
Failover
Clus
t
ers
w
ith
SQL
Server
2
0
08
f
or
high
availabilit
y
,
to create
the c
l
us
t
er y
o
u
a
re u
p
gr
adi
ng.
3
.
Apply
an Insight Software
Update
(patch) to an exi
s
ting
c
luster
implementat
i
on of Insight Software
6.2.
Appendix
B
in this paper contai
n
s t
h
e steps y
o
u
n
eed to fol
l
ow.
If you are f
a
miliar with the
installation
p
r
ocess, go directly
the
r
e; oth
e
rwise, you may benefit from reading
the
entire
docu
m
ent.
Appendix C
c
ontains
background
information
on
Insight
Software
updates
and running
the in
c
r
emental
update
installer.
This assumes you ha
v
e followed the steps in this
white paper to
c
reate
the
c
l
uster
you are updating.
4
.
Add
new prod
uc
ts
to
an
exi
s
ting
clus
t
er implementation
of Insight
S
oftware 6.2.
Appendix B
in this
paper
c
ontains the ste
p
s you need to follow. If you
are familiar
with
the installation
pro
c
ess, go
direc
t
ly there;
otherw
i
se, y
o
u may benefit
from
reading
the
entire
do
cu
ment.
T
his ass
u
mes you
have followed
the steps in this white paper to
c
r
eate
the
c
l
u
ster
you
are
u
p
grading.
5
.
Migra
t
e an existing I
n
sight
Software CMS runn
i
ng on
a Windows
S
erver 2
0
03 R2 MSCS c
l
us
t
er
to a Windows Server 2008
R2 Failover
Cluster.
App
e
ndix D
c
ontains
an overview of the
migration
pro
c
ess and
referen
c
es to
doc
u
ments
with
detailed
migration
steps.
Very Import
a
n
t
: At this time
it is strongly re
c
omme
n
ded
that
you
u
se
Windows Server 2008
R
2
instead of W
i
ndows Ser
v
er
2003 R2 to
deploy Ins
i
g
h
t
Software in a highly available
environ
m
ent.
Insight Softw
a
re 6.3 will not support
Windows 2003
c
lustering.
Windows 2003
is in a limited
support
p
h
ase
of its
product
life
c
y
c
l
e,
and
it
does
not support
HP ProLiant G7 servers. A migration
f
r
om an existing
W
i
ndows 2003
clus
t
er to a new Windo
w
s 2
0
08 c
l
us
t
er is supported only
in the
Ins
i
ght
sof
t
ware 6.2
rele
a
se. M
i
g
r
ation will not
be suppor
t
ed in
6.3. HP recommen
d
s that use
r
s of
Windo
w
s 2
0
03 clusters mi
g
rate to a Windows 20
0
8 c
l
us
t
er with the 6
.
2 rele
a
se. See
Appe
n
dix D
for more informat
i
on about migrati
n
g to Windo
w
s 2008.
Note
: If you only need to
provide
high availability
for
HP Systems I
n
sight Mana
ge
r (HP SIM) and no
other Insight Software products, use the white papers
m
entioned
below
instead
of this
one.
If you
need high availability
for
more I
n
sight Software products
than just HP SIM,
c
ontin
u
e to
follow the
instru
c
t
ions in this document. Otherwise, u
s
e one
of these white papers
to d
e
ploy
c
l
u
stering
for
HP
SIM only:
•
Deploying
HP
SIM
6x
or
g
r
eater
on
M
S
CS
clus
t
e
r
s on
Windo
w
s
2
0
03
with
SQL
Server
2
0
05
•
Deploying
HP
SIM
6x
or
g
r
eater
on
M
S
CS
clus
t
e
r
s on
Windo
w
s
2
0
08
with
SQL
Server
2
0
05
•
Deploying
HP
SIM
6.x
on
MSCS
c
l
us
t
e
r
s on
MS
Wi
n
dows 2
0
08
w
ith
SQL
ser
v
er
2008