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

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Appendix B: Upgrading clustered Insight Management
This appendix describes how to upgrade Insight Management in a cluster environment. The upgrade procedure can be used
to do the following:
1. Upgrade from Insight Software 6.2 or a succeeding release to Insight Management 7.2.
2. Add new products to an existing installation of Insight Management 7.2.
3. Apply an Insight Management 7.2 incremental update to Insight Management 7.2.
4. Upgrade directly from Insight Software 6.2 or a succeeding release, to Insight Management 7.2 Update x by installing
Insight Management 7.2 together with the incremental update and Insight Management Software Patches.
Upgrade overview
The following steps are a high level overview of the upgrade procedure for Insight Management running in a two-node
Failover Cluster. For details, see Upgrade steps.
1. Back up the cluster including the Insight Management and SQL Server shared disks. Follow the backup-restore white
paper that is specific to your pre-upgrade release, Backing up and restoring HP Insight Management x.y Central
Management System (Windows). White papers for previous Insight releases are listed in the