Installing HP Insight Software 6.1 Update 1 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters with SQL Server 2008 for high availability

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Step #
Step Description
Notes
first. For more information see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955963
.

The full computer names of the cluster nodes should include the
cluster
domain name to avoid a
disjointed namespa
ce configuration
. See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952247
.

Make sure that the appropriate ports are open on active firewalls or
disable the firewalls temporarily.
4
Validate a Failover Cluster
Config
uration:
http://technet.microsoft.com/
en
-
us/library/cc772450.aspx

If
the
cluster’s domain controllers are on the private network, the network
binding order should remain public first,
then private. However this will
produce a warning for the Network binding order test.
If this occurs it is
acceptable to proceed.
5
Create a New Failover
Cluster:
http://technet.microsoft.com/
en
-
us/library/cc755129.aspx

If you
are
creating
a
cluster using
the
access points
from
a previously
destroyed
cluster and get errors while doing so
, use Active Directory
Start

Administrative Tools

Active Directory Users and Computers
to delete
the entries for these access points from the
Computers
folder. Destroying a
cluster does not delete these entries from the
Computers
folder.

In the wizard screen titled
Access Point for Administering the Clus
ter
, enter
the IP address and network name you have provisioned for the Failover
Cluster. This
white
paper uses
16.92.155.183
and
CMS
-
C2
-
CLUSTER
.

The Quorum model for y
our two
-
node cluster should be
Node and Disk
Majority
.
Upon completion of cluster crea
tion
,
you see a screen
similar to Figure 2
.
Figure
2
:
Create Cluster Wizard Summary screen