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

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3
In addition, readers must be familiar with installing and administering these products:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 Standard and Failover Clustering
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise or Standard Edition SP1, particularly named instances
Hardware, software, storage, systems, and network requirements
This white paper discusses installing and configuring a cluster using the following products and resources.
Hardware
Two HP ProLiant physical servers with attached shared storage are needed. Virtual machines are not supported. Each
system must satisfy all the hardware and recommended requirements for Insight Management and Windows Server 2012
or 2012 R2 Standard, including the processor, memory, networking, storage, and disk space. For details, see the
Management servers in a high-availability environment
in the HP Insight Management Support Matrix, and also see
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/ to validate that servers and storage are certified for Windows Server 2012.
If the servers are ProLiant Server Blades, it is a best practice to locate them in separate enclosures that will not be managed
by the Insight Management software that runs on them.
Software
The following software is needed:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 Standard, which includes:
– Failover Clustering
– Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise or Standard Edition SP1
• HP Insight Management 7.3DVD #1 and DVD #2
• Update DVD, if installing any future Insight Management 7.3update
• Additional software specified as requirements for non-OS software and supported browsers in the HP Insight
Management 7.3 Support Matrix
• One of the following:
– Support Pack for ProLiant (SPP)
– ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) and Smart Update Firmware DVD
Use of SPP is encouraged. The PSP will be phased out in the future. See the HP Insight Management Support Matrix to know
the supported version of SPP and PSP.
The software listed above reflects the preferred supported versions. For Windows Server and SQL Server products, these
earlier versions are also supported:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, with or without SP1. The hotfix download described in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978527 is required when SP1 is not installed. If you are installing Insight
Management 7.3.x on a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster, follow the Insight Management installation
instructions of the 7.1 version of this whitepaper. Follow the Using Failover Cluster Manager to create resources
for the Insight Management clustered service section onward in the 7.3 version of this whitepaper to know more
about the changes in the post Insight Management installation configuration procedure.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise with SP3
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with SP2
Note:
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1 is not supported with Insight Management release 7.2.2 and onward.
• The support for SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups has been added in Insight Management 7.3. See the HP
Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 Release Notes
for details.
Storage
The following storage disks with drive letters are used for the examples in this white paper:
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