Installing and upgrading HP Insight Management 7.2 Update 2 on Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.2
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Table of contents
Abstract ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Summary of the Insight Management high availability solution .................................................................................... 5
Using a CMS cluster as part of a federated CMS environment ........................................................................................ 5
Components supported in a highly available environment ............................................................................................. 5
Description of the Insight Management high availability solution ................................................................................. 7
Getting started ............................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Target audience ......................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Hardware, software, storage, systems, and network requirements ............................................................................ 9
Cluster configuration .............................................................................................................................................................. 11
Setting up the failover environment ....................................................................................................................................... 12
Administrator credentials used by this white paper........................................................................................................ 12
Installing and configuring prerequisites on both systems............................................................................................. 12
Creating the Failover Cluster ................................................................................................................................................ 14
Changing administrator accounts ....................................................................................................................................... 16
Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise ................................................................................................................. 17
Installing Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator as a clustered service ..................................................... 17
Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise as a clustered service .................................................................... 18
Installing Insight Management components in the cluster ................................................................................................ 23
Creating the cluster group and resources for the Systems Insight Manager and Insight Management
clustered service ..................................................................................................................................................................... 23
Installing Insight Management prerequisites ................................................................................................................... 24
Tips on the process of installing Insight Management components ........................................................................... 25
Installing Insight Management components on the primary system.......................................................................... 26
Installing Insight Management components on the secondary system ..................................................................... 28
Adding the Insight Management cluster resources ......................................................................................................... 29
Using Failover Cluster Manager to create resources for the Insight Management clustered service .................. 29
Create resources for Systems Insight Manager and HP Version Control ................................................................... 30
Creating resources for HP Insight Control components ................................................................................................. 31
Creating resources for HP Matrix Operating Environment components .................................................................... 31
Creating the resource for HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration ............................................................................... 32
Updating the HP SIM cluster settings ................................................................................................................................. 33
Updating properties ................................................................................................................................................................ 33
Bringing online the Insight Management clustered service .......................................................................................... 33
Stopping or restarting Windows services that are cluster resources ......................................................................... 34
Completing and validating the installation ............................................................................................................................ 35
Configuring Systems Insight Manager and validating the cluster ................................................................................ 35
Final configuration steps ....................................................................................................................................................... 39