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

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3

For additional information on DTC, see:

• Requirements for Creating an MS DTC Resource in a Failover Cluster, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/library/cc770748(WS.10).aspx

• Understanding MS DTC Resources in Windows Server Failover Clusters, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/library/cc730992(WS.10).aspx

• Administering Distributed Transactions, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755134(WS.10).aspx

Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1 as a clustered service

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise or Standard SP1 provides SQL database services to Insight Management. Install each

node sequentially. (This white paper documents the Add Node alternative for installing SQL server 2012, the simpler choice

for a two-node cluster. The other option is called Advanced/Enterprise installation.)

Alternative method for launching the SQL Server 2012 installer

HP encountered an installation difficulty, documented by Microsoft with a dialog box titled “Rule Check Result.” The dialog

box displays the following text: “Rule ‘Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) cluster verification errors’ failed. The cluster either has

not been verified or there are errors or failures in the verification report. See the KB953748 or SQL Server Books Online at

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953748.” This condition occurs during SQL Server 2012 installation after you have run

cluster verification with no reported errors or failures, and the condition effectively halts installation.

If this occurs in your installation, the workaround is to invoke the SQL Server 2012 installer from the command prompt as

described here. Navigate to the directory that contains setup.exe for the SQL Server 2012 SP1 from the slipstream

distribution. Then use one of the following commands to start the installer.

For installation on the first node:

setup /SkipRules=Cluster_VerifyForErrors /Action=InstallFailoverCluster

For installation on the second node:

setup /SkipRules=Cluster_VerifyForErrors /Action=AddNode

Do not use this method to bypass actual cluster verification errors or failures.

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