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

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.2

Upgrading in a federated CMS environment

A CMS federation includes a primary and one or more secondary CMSs. The following rules for upgrading in a federation

apply to both standalone and clustered CMSs:

• The primary must be the first CMS to be upgraded.

• After the primary is upgraded, the secondary CMSs may be upgraded in any order.

• The secondary CMSs may be upgraded serially or in parallel.

For further details on upgrading a federated CMS environment see the HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.2 Infrastructure

Orchestration User Guide, Installation and configuration.

Upgrade steps

The process for upgrading Insight Management in a cluster differs from a non-cluster upgrade. As you proceed with the

following steps for cluster upgrade, you may find it helpful to track the standard upgrade process. The standard steps are

described in section 2, Installing or upgrading HP SIM, in the HP Insight Software 7.2 Installation and Configuration Guide or

ICG. The ICG can fill in gaps in the upgrade process that are not covered in detail below.

1. Back up the cluster including the Insight Management and SQL Server shared disks.

A. Ensure all in-progress Insight Management jobs, requests, tasks, and migrations have completed, and that no

jobs, requests, or tasks are scheduled to run during the upgrade. For more information, see the section Preparing

your environment for backup in the revision of the white paper, Backing up and restoring HP Insight Management

Central Management System (Windows), that is specific to your pre-upgrade release. The white papers are listed in

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