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

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.2

Installing Insight Management components in the cluster

By following the previous instructions in this white paper, you now have a two-node Failover Cluster with Microsoft

Distributed Transaction Coordinator and an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise installed as clustered services.

The resources needed to create a clustered service for Insight Management 7.2 have been provisioned. Both cluster nodes

are running.

A few configuration steps remain before starting the installation of Insight Management.

Creating the cluster group and resources for the Systems Insight Manager and Insight

Management clustered service

Before installing Insight Management, create the cluster group for Systems Insight Manager and Insight Management and

add its client access point and disk resources. Additional resources will be added to this group after Insight Management is

installed.

1. Log in to one of the cluster systems under the SQL/IM Administrator account and start the Failover Cluster Manager.

2. In the left pane ensure that the console tree for the cluster to be configured is expanded. If the cluster is not displayed,

then right-click Failover Cluster Manager, click Connect to Cluster and select or specify the cluster by name.

3. In the left pane right-click Roles. From the drop-down list, click Create Empty Role. A group named New Role is added

to the list in the middle pane under Roles.

4. In the middle pane right-click the new group New Role. In the drop-down list presented, mouse-over Add Resource and

click Client Access Point. The New Resource Wizard starts. Follow the wizard to create the Client Access Point. Enter the

Network Name and IP address to be used for the Systems Insight Manager virtual server. This white paper uses cms-

c16-hpsim and 15.199.242.164. Complete the wizard by clicking Next, Next, and Finish. The client access point just

created is shown in the center pane under Server Name in the Resources tab at the bottom. Its Status is Offline.

5. Now change the group name from New Role to your Network Name; in this white paper cms-c16-hpsim. In the top

middle pane right-click the group New Role, select Properties and change the name of the New Role.

6. Right-click again on the new group. On the drop-down list, click Add storage. The next screen shows the last unused

shared disk in Available Storage. Select this disk; V:\ is used in this white paper. This disk will contain the Insight

Management program files. Click OK.

7. In the center pane of Failover Cluster Manager under Server Name, right-click the network name of the client access

point, in this white paper cms-c16-matrix, and then click Bring online.

8. At this point the cluster group for Systems Insight Manager and Insight Management has been created, the client

access point resource is defined and is online, and disk resource is defined and online as shown in Figure 7.