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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Revision History
E
dition
Date
Description of Revision
2
December 2010
Updated
Insight Dynamics infrastructure orchestration
section under
Final configuration steps
1
September
2010
First release of
this
whitepaper
Abstract
This
white
paper is intended to assist IT professionals in installing Insight Software release 6.1
Update 1 for ProLiant from its DVD distribution onto a Microsoft
®
Windows
®
based Central
Management Server (CMS) to create a highly available environment. This
white
paper explains how
to configure the CMS as a two
-
node Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster, with or without
installing SQL Server 2008 on the same cluster. Using
Failover Clustering with HP Insight Software is
a simple way of achieving redundancy, availability, load balancing, and failover capability for this
powerful management software.
Insight Software 6.1 Update 1 is the first release of Insight Software to sup
port Windows
Server
2008
R2 Failover Cluster
s
.
With this Insight Software release and Windows Server 2008 R2, there is only
an original installation
—
no upgrade or migration to this release is possible.
Note:
If you need to provide high availability for HP
Systems Insight Manager
(
Systems Insight Manager
) only and no other Insight Software product, use
one of the following white papers to deploy clustering for
Systems Insight
Manager
.
Deploying
Systems Insight Manager
6
.
x on MSCS clusters on Windows
2003 with SQL Server 2005
SP3
Deploying
Systems Insight Manager
6
.
x
on MSCS
C
lusters on Windows
2008 with SQL Server 2005
Deploying
Systems Insight Manager
6
.
x on MSCS clusters on Windows
2008 with SQL Server 2008
SP1
Introduction
The HP
Insight Software media set provides an integrated installer to quickly and accurately deploy,
configure, integrate, and update HP Insight Software products. The individual components delivered
with HP Insight Software 6.1 include:

HP Insight Software Insta
ller:
A wizard
-
based installer used to simplify the installation,
configuration, and integration of HP Insight Software.

HP
Systems Insight Manager
(
Systems Insight Manager
):
The Central Management Server (CMS)
that provides unified foundation management services for HP servers, storage, and network
resources from a single console.
Systems Insight Manager
delivers centralized fault, configuration,
inventory, performance manage
ment, warranty details, automated service call initiation, and
troubleshooting information.
Systems Insight Manager
is built according to industry standards to
manage HP and non
-
HP infrastructure resources.