Installing and upgrading to HP Insight Software 6.2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters with SQL Server 2008 for high availability
56
App
e
ndix
D:
M
i
grating
an
I
n
sight
Software
6.2
Windows
2003
Cluster
to
a
Windows
2008
cluster
This appendix
provides an overview of t
h
e ste
p
s to migrate an Insig
h
t Software 6
.
2 Windows 2003
Server R2 c
l
uster to a Windows 2
0
08 Server R2
clu
s
ter.
It
contains
refer
e
nces to docu
m
ents with
detailed
migration
steps.
It is stro
n
gly
r
ecom
m
ended
that you use Windo
w
s Se
r
ver 2008
R2
i
nstead of W
i
ndows Ser
v
er
2003
R
2 to
deploy
Insight Software in a highly avai
l
able env
i
ronment. Ins
ig
ht Software 6.3
will not support
Windows 2003
c
l
u
stering.
Windows 2003
is in a limited
support
phase of its
produ
c
t life
cy
c
le, a
n
d
it
does
not s
u
pport
HP ProLiant
G7 servers. Migra
t
ion from an existing
Win
d
o
w
s 2
0
03 c
l
us
t
er to a new
Wind
o
ws 20
0
8 c
l
us
t
er is suppor
t
ed only in the Insight
software 6.2
rele
a
s
e. Migration
will not
be
supported in 6.3. HP recommends that
use
r
s of W
in
dows
2
0
03 c
l
us
t
ers m
i
grate to a Windows 2008
cluster with the 6.2 release.
T
he following
table lists the
white papers
you will
n
eed
to migrate
an Insight Softw
a
re
2003
c
l
u
s
ter to
a 2008 c
l
us
te
r.
Table
4
:
Summa
r
y
of
Ins
i
ght
Sof
tw
are
cluster
m
i
gration
related
whi
t
e
papers
Title
Description
http://h200
0
0
.
www 2
.
hp.com /
b
c/docs/support
/
SupportM a
nual/c
0
25374
5
3/c0253
7
453.
p
d
f
This
is
the
prima
r
y
reference
f
or
m
i
grating
an Insight
Software
cluster.
Installing and u
p
grading to HP In
s
ight S
o
f
tware 6.2
on
Windows
Server 2008 R2 Failover
Clus
t
ers with
S
Q
L Server
2008 for h
i
gh
a
v
ailability
This
paper
conta
i
ns
instructions
for
creating
a
new
Windows
2
008 cluster.
Installing and u
p
grading to HP In
s
ight S
o
f
tware
6.2
on
Windows
Server 2003 R2
MSCS
for high availabili
t
y
This
paper
conta
i
ns
instructions
for
upgrading
a W
i
ndows
2003
c
l
uster
to
I
n
sight
Software
6
.
2.
To migra
t
e to Windo
w
s 2
0
08, set up a separate
2008
cluster. T
h
en use the Ins
i
ght
Software
migration
tools to migrate
Insight Software data from the s
o
urce 2
0
03 c
l
us
t
er to the target 20
0
8
cl
u
s
t
e
r.
You
w
ill find
detailed mig
r
ation steps i
n
clu
d
ing s
t
eps
for migrati
n
g a clus
t
er in t
h
e
Data
migration
of
an
existing
Microsoft
Win
d
ows
CMS
to
a
new Insight
Software
6.2
system
white
paper.
T
he steps are
summarized
b
elow.
1
.
Foll
o
w the instruc
t
io
n
s in the main body of this d
o
cu
m
ent to crea
t
e the new Win
d
ows 2
0
08
cl
u
s
t
e
r.
•
Install the new cluster as a different c
l
u
s
ter in the same
Windows domain
as the old
c
l
u
ster.
•
Con
f
i
g
ure the
new c
l
us
t
er
s
ystems, I
n
sig
h
t S
o
ftware, and the SQL server with the same
administrator
passwords as in the old
c
luster.
2
.
If the Windows 2003 clus
t
er is not running the Ins
i
ght Software 6.2
rele
a
se, fol
lo
w the steps in
Installi
n
g and
upgrading
to
HP
Insight
So
f
tware
6.2
on
Windo
w
s
Se
r
ver
2003
R2
MSCS
for
h
ig
h
availability
to
upgrade
the
cluster to I
n
s
ig
ht Software vers
i
on 6.2.
3
.
Foll
o
w the instruc
t
io
n
s in the
Data
migration
of
an
exis
t
ing
M
i
c
rosoft
Windo
w
s C
M
S
to a
new
Insight
S
o
ftw
a
re
6.2
sys
t
em
white
paper to:
•
Prepare the
s
ou
r
ce
C
MS and run the e
x
port utility on
one of the n
o
des in the W
i
ndows 2
0
03
cl
u
s
t
e
r.