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

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3
Configuring the cluster for operations ........................................................................................................................ 40
Using the Cluster Validation Wizard to verify the storage configuration .................................................................... 42
Appendix A: Summary of Insight Management cluster resources ............................................................................... 42
Appendix B: Upgrading clustered Insight Management ................................................................................................ 44
Upgrade overview .......................................................................................................................................................... 44
Expected downtime ....................................................................................................................................................... 45
Upgrade preconditions and requirements .................................................................................................................. 45
Upgrading in a federated CMS environment ............................................................................................................... 45
Upgrade steps ................................................................................................................................................................ 45
Appendix C: Applying Insight Management Incremental Updates ............................................................................... 53
Option 1: Installing an Incremental Update during a fresh install ........................................................................... 53
Option 2: Installing an Incremental Update during an upgrade to a major release .............................................. 53
Option 3: Installing an Incremental update after installing a major release .......................................................... 54
How to run the Incremental Update Installer ............................................................................................................. 54
Appendix D: Applying Insight Management Software Patches .................................................................................... 55
Option 1: Installing a patch during a fresh install of Insight Management release ............................................... 55
Option 2: Installing a patch during an upgrade to a major Insight Management release..................................... 55
Option 3: Installing a patch after installing a major Insight Management release ................................................ 56
Appendix E: Migrating an Insight Management 7.3 Windows 2012 Cluster or a 7.3 Windows 2012
Standalone Server to a Windows 2012 Cluster ............................................................................................................. 56
Migration overview ......................................................................................................................................................... 56
Appendix F: Configure static IPv6 address to the Cluster virtual server and the HP SIM virtual server in
Failover Cluster Manager .................................................................................................................................................. 57
References .......................................................................................................................................................................... 58
HP white papers from previous Insight Management releases ............................................................................... 59
HP infrastructure software, servers, and storage ..................................................................................................... 59
Microsoft Failover Clusters ........................................................................................................................................... 60
Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) ......................................................................................... 60
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 ........................................................................................................................................... 60
For more information ........................................................................................................................................................ 61
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