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

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Otherwise, the SQL Server instance c
r
eated
below will
be
u
sed
to
host the
databases
req
u
ired
for
HP SIM and
t
he Insight Software appli
c
ations.
Target
audience
It
is
ass
u
med
that
readers
of this
document
have
an
excellent
under
s
ta
nding of the following
co
n
c
epts
and services:
•
Bas
i
c c
l
us
t
eri
n
g co
n
c
epts
•
Bas
i
c Wind
o
ws Serv
e
r 2
0
08 ser
v
i
c
es
•
Advanced
TCP/IP and DNS network
concepts
In addition,
readers
must
be
f
a
miliar
with
installing
and
administering
these pro
d
u
c
ts:
•
M
i
cr
o
soft W
i
ndows Ser
v
er
2008 R2 En
t
erprise and Failover C
l
ustering
•
M
i
cr
o
soft S
Q
L Server 20
0
8 Enterpr
i
se, particularly
na
m
ed instances
Hardware,
software,
storage,
systems,
and
network
requirements
This
white p
a
per discusses
installing and
c
onfi
g
u
ring a
c
luster
u
s
ing the following prod
uc
ts and
resou
r
ces:
Hard
w
are
Two HP P
r
oL
i
ant serve
r
s w
i
th attached shared sto
r
a
g
e are needed.
E
ach sys
t
em must sat
i
sfy all
t
he
hardware and recom
m
ended
requ
i
re
m
ents for
Insight
Software and Windo
w
s Se
r
ver 2008
R2
Enterprise,
including
pr
o
cessor, memory,
netwo
r
ki
n
g,
and disk space.
For details,
refer to “Central
Manage
m
ent Server re
q
uirements” in
HP
Insight
Software
Support
Matri
x
,
and
http://www.windo
w
sservercatalog
.
c
o
m
/
to
validate
servers and storage that are
c
ertified
for
Windo
w
s Se
r
ver 2008
R2.
Soft
w
are
The
s
oftwa
r
e needed:
•
M
i
cr
o
soft W
i
ndows Ser
v
er
2008 R2 En
t
erprise, wh
i
c
h
inclu
d
es
–
Failover
Clus
t
ering
–
Mi
c
rosoft
Distributed
Tra
n
saction Coordinator (DTC)
•
M
i
cr
o
soft S
Q
L Server 20
0
8 Enterprise wi
t
h Service P
a
ck 1
•
HP Insight So
f
tware 6.2 DVD #1 and
DVD #2
•
If you are installing
an Insight Software 6
.
2 update,
the update
DVD
•
Additional
software as specified
in “Requiremen
t
s for
n
on
-
OS s
o
ftw
a
re and
S
u
pported
browsers” in
the
HP
Insight
Software
6.2
Support
Matrix
•
ProLiant Sup
p
ort Pack (PS
P
)
8.50 or hig
h
er. To dow
n
load
PSPs for yo
u
r OS and
server model,
go
to
http://welcome.hp.com/country
/
us
/
e
n
/support.html
Storage
T
he storage
d
isks needed along with the
drive letters used for t
h
e
examples
in this white paper:
•
Two private
d
isks, one f
o
r each Pro
L
iant system’s boot
drive, disk
C:
•
One sha
r
ed disk
f
or the
c
l
us
ter witn
e
ss, d
i
sk
W:
•
One sha
r
ed disk
f
or
M
ic
r
o
s
oft Dist
r
i
buted
Transac
t
ion
Coordinator, disk
T:
•
One sha
r
ed disk
f
or Mic
r
osoft SQL Server 2008,
disk
S:
•
One sha
r
ed disk
f
or the I
n
s
i
ght Software
program fi
l
es,
disk
V: