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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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 addition, readers must be familiar with installing and administering these products:
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Failover
Clustering
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise, particularly named instances
Hardware, software, storage, systems, and network requirements
This white paper discusses installing and configuring a cluster using the following products and
resources:
Hardwa
re
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 dis
k space.
For details to validate servers
and storage that are certified for Windows Server 2008 R2, refer to
Central Management Server
requirements
in
HP Insight Software
Support Matrix
, and
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/
.
Software
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, which includes
–
Failover Clustering
–
Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)
Micro
soft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise with Service Pack 1
HP Insight Software 6.1 DVD #1 and DVD #2
HP Insight Software 6.1 Update 1 DVD
Additional software as specified in
Requirements for non
-
OS software and Supported browsers
in
the
HP Insight Software 6.1 Support Matrix
ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) 8.50 or higher. To download PSPs for your OS and server model, go to
http://welcome.hp.com/count
ry/us/en/support.html
Storage
The storage disks needed along with the drive letters used for the examples in this white paper:
Two private disks, one for each ProLiant system’s boot drive, disk
C:
One shared disk for the cluster witness, disk
W:
One shared disk for Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, disk
T:
One shared disk for Microsoft SQL Server 2008, disk
S:
One shared disk for the Insight Software program files, disk
V:
It is recommended that SAN storage be used for boot disks as well as the shared disks. See the
document
Booting HP ProLiant servers from a storage area network
, a
nd
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/storage/networking/bootsan.html
.