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

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3
Table of contents
Abstract .................................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................ 5
Summary of the Insight Management high availability solution ................................................................................ 5
Using a CMS cluster as part of a federated CMS environment .................................................................................... 5
Components supported in a highly available environment ......................................................................................... 5
Description of the Insight Management high availability solution .............................................................................. 7
Getting started ....................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Target audience ................................................................................................................................................................. 8
Hardware, software, storage, systems, and network requirements ......................................................................... 9
Cluster configuration ..................................................................................................................................................... 11
Setting up the failover environment ................................................................................................................................ 12
Administrator credentials used by this white paper .................................................................................................. 12
Installing and configuring prerequisites on both systems ....................................................................................... 12
Creating the Failover Cluster ........................................................................................................................................ 14
Changing administrator accounts ................................................................................................................................ 16
Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1 ...................................................................................................................... 17
Installing Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator as a clustered service .................................................. 17
Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1 as a clustered service ............................................................................ 18
Installing Insight Management components in the cluster .......................................................................................... 22
Creating the cluster group and resources for the Systems Insight Manager and Insight Management
clustered service ............................................................................................................................................................ 22
Installing Insight Management prerequisites ............................................................................................................. 23
Tips on the process of installing Insight Management components ...................................................................... 25
Installing Insight Management components on the primary system ..................................................................... 25
Installing Insight Management components on the secondary system ................................................................. 27
Adding the Insight Management cluster resources ................................................................................................... 28
Using Failover Cluster Manager to create resources for the Insight Management clustered service ................ 28
Create resources for Systems Insight Manager and HP Version Control ................................................................ 29
Creating resources for HP Insight Control components ........................................................................................... 30
Creating resources for HP Matrix Operating Environment components ................................................................ 30
Creating the resource for HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration ........................................................................... 31
Updating the HP SIM cluster settings .......................................................................................................................... 32
Updating properties ....................................................................................................................................................... 32
Bringing online the Insight Management clustered service ..................................................................................... 33
Stopping or restarting Windows services that are cluster resources ..................................................................... 33
Completing and validating the installation ..................................................................................................................... 34
Configuring Systems Insight Manager and validating the cluster ........................................................................... 34
Final configuration steps ............................................................................................................................................... 38
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