Installing and upgrading HP Insight Management 7.3 on Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3
• Features Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2012; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/cc645993.aspx#High_availability
Applying updates to the SQL Server 2012 Enterprise or Standard SP1
SQL Server uses an Incremental Servicing Model (ISM). The model is described in An Incremental Servicing Model is available
from the SQL Server team to deliver hotfixes for reported problems at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935897/.
Issues that
have broad impact and are well- tested, such as security issues, are packaged into General Distribution Releases and
distributed through Microsoft Update, Windows Update, or both.
Other hotfixes are released periodically as cumulative updates. These updates must be requested. See The SQL Server 2012
builds that were released after SQL Server 2012 at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2772858
and Cumulative update
package 5 for SQL Server 2012 is available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2777772. Microsoft recommends that you
apply only needed hotfixes in production after testing. (There are other more selective delivery mechanisms for more critical
hotfixes.)
A Cumulative Update must be applied to both cluster nodes, one at a time, to the node that does not own the SQL Server
cluster resources.
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 SP1 installed as clustered services. The
resources needed to create a clustered service for Insight Management 7.3 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-
c17-matrix and 15.199.192.147. 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-c17-matrix. In the top
middle pane right-click the group
New Role, select Properties and change the name of the New Role.
Note:
On an IPv6 network, the HP SIM client access point automatically acquires a link local address.Configure the static IPv6
address and remove the link local IP. For the purpose of testing in the lab, this task was accomplished using a
Powershell script added in the Appendix F: Configure static IPv6 address to the Cluster virtual server and the HP SIM
virtual server in Failover Cluster Manager
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-c17-matrix, and then click Bring online.
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