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

6
Insight
Software
Componen
t
1
Suppo
r
ted
in
HA
e n v ir o n m en t
Comment
HP
Insight
man
ag
ed
syst
e
m
setup
wizard
Yes
HP
Insight
Remo
t
e
Support
Adva
n
ced
sof
t
ware
No
HP
Insight
Contr
o
l
server
deploym
e
nt
suppl
e
ment
No
HP
Insight
Contr
o
l
server
migration
Yes
Additional
configuration
step requ
i
red
HP
Insight
mx
s
y
n
c
Utili
t
y
Yes
HP
Virtual
C
o
nnect
Enterprise
Manager
Yes
HP
Insight
Dynamics
capaci
t
y
pl
an
ning,
conf
i
guration, and
workload
management
and
HP
Insight
Capacity
Advisor
Consoli
d
ation
software
Yes
Additional
configuration
step requ
i
red
HP
Insight
D
y
na
m
ics
i
n
frastructure orchestrati
o
n
Yes
Additional
configuration
step requ
ir
ed
HP
Insight
D
y
na
m
ics
recovery
m
an
ageme
n
t
Yes
HP
Insight
Softw
a
re
Advisor
Yes
Insight S
o
ftw
a
re compo
n
en
t
s run in a M
i
cros
o
ft Wind
o
ws Server en
v
ironment, usi
n
g M
i
cr
o
soft
S
QL
Server on HP
ProLiant servers. By installing
I
n
sight Software components as
c
l
ustered
applications,
these management
produ
c
ts
c
an also be
highly avai
l
able. In a Failover C
l
ust
e
r e
n
vironment, a virtual
ser
v
er name and asso
c
iated
IP address for the HP Systems Insight Manager ser
v
ice
c
an be
c
r
eated as
a
c
l
u
ster
reso
u
rce,
allowing
failover
for
higher ava
i
l
a
b
ility
in
c
ase of a system f
a
ilu
r
e or planned
shutd
o
wn. C
l
us
t
er r
e
s
o
ur
ce
s are also
c
r
ea
ted for other
Insight Sof
twa
re compo
ne
nts, inc
l
uding
those
that
are bundled with Insight Control and Insight
Dyna
m
ics, all
o
wing
f
ailover of t
h
e
s
e serv
ic
es.
Additionally,
by distributing
the load
for Mi
c
r
oso
f
t SQL Server and Insight Sof
t
ware compo
n
en
t
s on
separate s
y
st
e
ms, more e
f
f
ic
ient
u
se can
b
e made of c
lu
ster s
y
stem
re
so
u
r
c
es.
T
his
white p
a
per des
c
ribes
the steps to install a highly
available
c
lustered
ver
s
ion
of Ins
i
ght Sof
t
ware
on HP ProLia
n
t serve
r
s run
ni
ng M
i
cr
o
soft
Windo
w
s Se
r
ver 2008
R2
Enterprise and Mic
r
os
o
ft SQL
Server 2
0
08
Enterprise Se
r
vice P
a
ck 1. Refer to the
HP
I
nsight
Sof
tw
are
Support
Matrix
for
details on
the hardware and software
installation
require
m
ents
f
or
Insight Sof
tw
are. This and other Insight
Software
doc
u
ments
c
an be
fo
u
nd at
http://h180
0
4.www1.hp.com/products/ser
v
ers/ma
n
agement
/
uni
fi
ed/inf
o
librar
y
is.html
The relatio
n
s
h
ip between t
h
e Microsoft
S
QL Server 2
0
08 Enterpr
i
se
instan
c
es and
I
nsight Sof
twa
re is
shown in
F
i
gu
re 1.
•
A Failov
e
r C
l
us
t
er defi
n
es
“virtual s
e
rve
r
s.” A virtu
a
l server has a unique stat
i
c c
l
ient
-
f
a
c
i
n
g ne
t
wo
r
k
name
and
IP
address,
c
alled
an
“a
cc
ess
point”
that
is registered
with t
h
e DNS.
T
he virt
u
a
l ser
v
er
also
associates
the a
c
cess point with a Windows
serv
ic
e (and typically
other “c
l
u
s
t
er r
e
so
u
r
c
es”)
that,
at any
t
i
me,
may
r
u
n on, at
most,
one of
the c
lu
s
t
er’s s
y
ste
m
s (physical
s
erv
e
rs). When a
Windo
w
s se
r
vice
i
s co
n
fi
g
ured th
i
s way, it is also cal
l
ed a
clus
t
er
service
.
•
A cl
i
ent a
c
c
es
s
e
s the Ins
i
ght
Software
CM
S
through
its
v
irtu
a
l server.
Clients conne
c
t to HP SIM, and
thereby
Insight Software,
thro
u
gh HP SIM’s a
c
cess
point.
Network traffic
addressed
to the virtu
a
l
ser
v
er is
r
ece
i
ved by the HP SIM serv
ic
e,
whe
r
ever
it is
runni
n
g in the cluster. T
h
us,
a client has no
need to kn
o
w
on which s
y
s
t
em
HP SIM is
actually
running.
•
Likewise, Insight Software
uses the access point of
t
h
e Mic
r
osoft S
Q
L Server 2
00
8 virtual
server to
con
n
ect to a Microsoft SQL Server
2008
database
i
n
stance. Microsoft SQL Server 2008
is ins
t
alled
as
a
c
l
u
ster
servi
c
e.
•
The databases
u
s
ed by the Insight Softw
a
re reside
in a
Mi
c
rosoft
SQL Server 2008
database
instan
c
e. Other data files
a
re sto
r
ed on the Ins
i
ght Sof
t
ware sha
r
ed disk.