Installing and upgrading to HP Insight Software 6.3 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster with SQL Server 2008 for high availability

Getting sta rted

This white paper documents how to install Insight Software on a new two-node Microsoft Failover

Cluster.

Note:

Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise supports Failover Clusters up to 16 nodes.

The number of supported nodes in a cluster varies by operating system

version. For details, navigate to

http:/ / support.microsoft.com and search

for “Maximum number of supported nodes in a cluster”.

The major steps are:

• Set up the failover environment

• Install SQL Server 2008 on the cluster

• Insta ll a nd va lida te Insight Softwa re on the cluster

If a clustered Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise named instance exists on a different cluster than

the one on which Insight Software is to run, you can use this instance and skip the installation of a

new SL Server 2008 instance on the Insight Software cluster. In this case, you can also skip the

allocation of the access point IP addresses and network names, and the shared disks for Microsoft

SQL Server a nd for Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator.

Otherwise, the SQL Server instance created below will be used to host the databases required for

Systems Insight Manager and the Insight Software applications.

Target audience

It is assumed that readers of this document have an excellent understanding of the following concepts

and services:

• Basic clustering concepts

• Basic Windows Server 2008 services

• Advanced TCP/ IP and DNS network concepts

In a ddition, rea ders must be familiar with installing a nd administering these products:

• Microsoft W indows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Failover Clustering

• Microsoft SQ L Server 2008 Enterprise, particularly named instances

Hardware, software, storage, systems, and network requirements

This white pa per discusses insta lling a nd configuring a cluster using the following products and

resources:

Hardware

Two HP ProLiant servers with attached shared storage are needed. Each system must satisfy all the

hardware and recommended requirements for Insight Software and Windows Server 2008 R2

Enterprise, including processor, memory, networking, and disk space. For details, refer to “ Central

Management Server requirements” in

HP Insight Software Support Matrix, and

http:/ / www.windowsservercatalog.com/ to validate servers and storage that are certified for

Windows Server 2008 R2.