HP Insight Management 7.2 Update 2 Support Matrix

Table 23 Insight Management components that the cluster platform supports (continued)
Supported?Insight Management component
✓HP Insight Control power management
HP Insight Control server deployment
HP Insight Control server deployment SIM integration module
HP Insight Control server deployment Quiesce SIM Plugin
✓HP Insight Control server migration
✓HP Insight Control virtual machine management
✓HP Insight managed system setup wizard
✓HP Insight mxsync utility
✓HP Matrix Operating Environment capacity planning, configuration and workload
management, and HP Capacity Advisor Consolidation software
✓HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration
✓HP Matrix recovery management
✓HP Storage Provisioning Manager
✓HP SPM Adapter for EMC Symmetrix VMAX
✓HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
CMS cluster configuration
• Two-node clusters, consisting of two HP ProLiant servers (that is, physical servers, not virtual
machines) and attached shared storage, are supported. Each server must satisfy the hardware
and recommended requirements for Insight Management and the Microsoft Windows Server
2012 Standard OS, including processor, memory, networking, and disk space.
To validate servers and storage that are certified for Microsoft Windows Server 2012, see
“Management servers” (page 8) and the following Microsoft website:
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/
• HP recommends SAN shared storage, although you can use any shared storage that Microsoft
clustering supports.
• HP recommends SAN boot for the two cluster nodes.
• Each server requires two dedicated network adapters, at minimum, one for a public
(client-facing) network and another for a private cluster network. Each server requires a third
dedicated adapter if you use an iSCSI SAN.
• The SQL server must run either in the same cluster with Insight Management, or, in a remote
Windows cluster that is a member of the same Windows domain as the Insight Management
cluster.
• An Active Directory domain infrastructure and DNS services suitable for hosting the cluster
are required, but they cannot run on either of the two cluster nodes.
• The fully configured cluster must pass the Validate test in the Windows Failover Cluster
Manager.
24 Management servers in a high-availability environment