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

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3
Expected downtime
During the upgrade, Insight Management services are not available.
The amount of time to upgrade a two-node cluster is approximately the time to do the following:
• Create a complete backup of the cluster primary and secondary systems including the Insight Management, SQL
Server, Cluster Quorum, and Distributed Transaction Coordinator shared disks.
• Install the new version of Insight Management on the primary system.
• Restore the Insight Management and SQL Server shared disks using the backup.
• Install the new version of Insight Management on the secondary system.
Depending on your local installation and specific backup and restore tools, it may take 1–2 days to upgrade a two-node
cluster.
Upgrade preconditions and requirements
The following preconditions and requirements are needed:
1. HP Insight Software 6.3, a later release, or Insight Management 7.3 is already installed and configured in a Windows
Server Failover Cluster implementation.
2. If you are installing Insight Management 7.3, you need the HP Insight Management 7.3 DVD #1 and DVD #2.
3. If you are installing an Insight Management 7.3 update, you need the update DVD.
4. No Insight Management jobs, tasks, requests, or migrations are running during the upgrade.
5. The configuration of the managed environment doesn’t change during the upgrade.
6. Systems Insight Manager is not used during the upgrade except as described in this appendix.
7. A utility is needed to back up and restore cluster storage including the Insight Management and SQL Server shared
disks.
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 7.3 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 7.3 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
the References section.
B. Use the backup tool of your choice to make a full backup of the cluster including the Insight Management, SQL
Server, cluster witness, and Distributed Transaction Coordinator shared disks. It is recommended to take a full
backup in case of failure. It is required to create a backup of the Insight Management and SQL Server shared disks
to complete the upgrade. For information on how to back up and restore the disks, see the white paper, Backing
up and Restoring HP Insight Management Central Management Server (Windows), that is specific to your pre-
upgrade release.
2. Install any prerequisites for the new software on both cluster nodes.
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