HP Insight Management 7.2 Update 2 Support Matrix

3 Management servers in a high-availability environment
This chapter defines the requirements for a CMS and Matrix KVM Private Cloud in a high-availability
environment.
CMS in a HA environment
Using failover clustering with Insight Management is a simple way to achieve redundancy,
availability, load balancing, and failover capability.
The CMS can be configured as a single-site, two-node physical server Microsoft Windows Server
2012 failover cluster to create a highly-available environment.
CMS clustering is an included feature of the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard operating
systems, and cluster support is an included feature of the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise
and Standard (with a 2-node support limit). For more information, see the Features Supported by
the Editions of SQL Server 2012 at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/
cc645993.aspx#High_availability.
Installing or upgrading a CMS cluster follows a different procedure from that of a single-server
CMS installation or upgrade. For more information, see the Installing and upgrading HP Insight
Management 7.2 on Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters white paper in the Insight Management
Information Library:http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/docs
CMS supported cluster environments
Insight Management supports the following Microsoft Windows Server platforms for CMS
high-availability:
• Operating system:
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition◦
◦ Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition SP1
◦ Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition
• Databases:
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise◦
◦ Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise SP3
◦ Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP2
Insight Management components supported in a CMS highly available environment
Table 23 Insight Management components that the cluster platform supports
Supported?Insight Management component
✓HP Systems Insight Manager
✓HP Version Control Repository Manager
✓HP System Management Homepage
✓HP Insight Management Advisor
✓Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Mapper
✓HP Insight Control licensing and reports
✓HP Insight Control performance management
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