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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It is re
c
ommended that
SAN storage
be
u
s
ed for
b
oot
disks as well as the shared
disks. See the
do
cu
m
ent
Booting
HP
Pr
o
L
i
ant
serve
r
s
fr
o
m
a
storage
area
netw
o
r
k
,
and
also
go
to
http://h180
0
4.www1.hp.com/stora
g
e
/
netwo
r
ki
n
g/
b
ootsan.htm
l
.
In testing for this white paper, the disks for the
c
l
uster
witness and Distri
b
uted
Tr
a
nsa
c
tion Coordinator
were sized
at
1
GB
ea
c
h.
Tips:
Create
the
shar
e
d
disks
W:,
T:,
S
:
,
and
V:
on
t
he SAN
and present
t
hem
to the
c
l
uster
no
d
es,
but
do
not
“
o
nline,” “
i
nitializ
e
”
or
“create”
a
volume
for any
disk
u
ntil
instructed
to
do
s
o
in
the
s
ection
“
Create
the
Failo
v
er
Clus
t
e
r
” below.
The
SAN
“
snapclone”
fea
t
ure
provides
a
conven
i
ent
way
to create
r
e
store
points that
c
a
n
b
e
used
wi
t
h
bac
k
up
schemes
a
nd
t
o
f
acilitate
t
he
reinstallation
o
f
s
oftware
if neede
d
.
Sup
p
orting
syst
e
ms
It
is
ass
u
med
that
an
existing
Acti
v
e Directory
domain
infrastru
c
ture
and
DNS
servi
c
es
s
u
itable
for
hosting the c
l
u
s
ter are available.
Network
Microsoft
Failover
Cl
u
sters
req
u
ire that
ea
c
h
virtual
server
in
a
c
luster
have
a
u
nique static IP
address
and network
name registered
in the DNS. For the c
o
nfig
u
ration
des
c
ribed
in
this
white
paper,
fo
u
r
static IP addresses are re
q
u
ired for the fo
u
r virtual
ser
v
ers des
c
ribed
below.
1.
Failover
Cluster virtu
a
l ser
v
er and ac
c
e
ss point
Function:
T
o
ac
t as the virtual server IP
a
ddress
and name for the Failover
Cluster
software.
Sugges
t
ed ac
t
ion:
Windows management
tools use this address
to
get
status and
manage
the
Failover
Cluster software. In addition,
H
P SIM u
s
es
this address to
d
iscover the F
a
ilover
Cluster.
For the exa
m
ples discussed
in this white paper,
the IP
address is 16.92.155.183
and the name is
CMS
-
C
2
-
C
LUSTER.
2.
HP SIM and Insight Software virtu
a
l ser
v
er and a
cc
e
ss point
Function:
To
ac
t as the virtual
server IP
a
ddress a
n
d
name
for HP SIM and
Insight software.
You
specify
this
name
and
ad
d
ress to
c
on
n
ect to HP SIM through your
browser.
Sugges
t
ed ac
t
ion:
All SNMP devic
e
s that report their eve
n
ts to HP SIM sho
u
ld use
this IP address
and name for the location
of the Event Consolidator,
the SNMP Tr
a
p
Destination.
The host
defined for the WMI
Mapper proxy s
hould u
s
e this name and IP a
d
dress (unless the WMI
Mapper
servi
c
e
r
u
ns
on
a
system
that
is
n
o
t a clu
s
ter
m
ember and the WMI
Mapper is not
installed
as
p
a
rt of Insight
Software). For the
examples
discu
s
sed in this white paper,
the IP
address
is
16.92.155.186
and
the na
m
e is CMS
-
C2
-
HPSIM.
3.
M
i
cr
o
soft S
Q
L Server 20
0
8 vir
tu
a
l server
and a
cc
ess point
Function:
T
o
ac
t as the virtual server IP
a
ddress
and name for the
M
i
cr
o
soft S
Q
L Server 20
0
8
Enterprise
database
software.
T
his s
o
ftw
a
re is used
to
extra
c
t,
m
a
nip
u
late,
or
ba
c
k
u
p
the
Insight
Software and HP SIM databases.
Sugges
t
ed ac
t
ion:
The HP SIM Open Database
Conne
c
tivity
(ODBC) data
so
u
rce uses
this
virtu
a
l
ser
v
er IP address and name as the loc
a
tion w
h
ere the
CMS HP SIM Data
Source
Na
me (DSN)
points. In the examples discussed
in this
w
h
ite paper, the IP address
is 16.92.155.185
and the
name
is
CMS
-
C2
-
SQLSV
R
.