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

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3

Abstract

Using Failover Clustering with HP Insight Management is a simple way of achieving redundancy, availability, load balancing,

and failover capability for this powerful management software. This white paper is intended to assist IT professionals with

one or more of the following:

1. Install Insight Management 7.3 for ProLiant from its DVD distribution onto a Microsoft Windows-based Central

Management Server (CMS) to create a highly available environment. This white paper explains how to configure the

CMS as a two-node Windows Server 2012 Standard or Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Failover Cluster in an IPv4

only or in a dual stack environment with both IPv4 and IPv6 configured on the cluster. The paper also explains how to

install an instance of SQL Server 2012 on the same cluster. Alternately, you can use an existing instance of a supported

release of SQL Server from another cluster in the same domain. The main body of this paper consists of this

installation process. Appendix F: Configure static IPv6 address to the Cluster virtual server and the HP SIM virtual server

in Failover Cluster Manager contains instructions to attach the static IPv6 address to the virtual servers hosted in the

clustered environment.

2. Upgrade an existing clustered installation of Insight Software 6.3 or a later release to Insight Management 7.3.

Appendix B: Upgrading clustered Insight Management contains steps you must follow. If you are familiar with the

installation process, go directly there; otherwise, you might benefit from reading the entire document. The upgrade

process assumes you have followed the steps in the white paper Installing and upgrading to HP Insight Software 6.3 on

Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters with SQL Server 2008 for high availability or a later white paper to create the

cluster you are upgrading.

3. Apply an Insight Management Incremental Update to an existing cluster implementation of Insight Management 7.3.

Appendix C: Applying Insight Management Incremental Updates contains background information on Insight

Management updates and running the incremental update installer. This assumes you have followed the steps in this

white paper to create the cluster you are upgrading.

4. Add new products to an existing cluster implementation of Insight Management 7.3. Appendix B: Upgrading clustered

Insight Management contains the steps you must follow. If you are familiar with the installation process, go directly

there; otherwise, you might benefit from reading the entire document. This assumes you have followed the steps in

this white paper to create the cluster you are upgrading.

5. Migrate an existing Windows 2012 standalone server or cluster system to a new Windows 2012 cluster system, where

both the source and target systems are installed with the same level of Insight Management 7.3. Appendix E: Migrating

an Insight Management 7.3 Windows 2012 Cluster or a 7.3 Windows 2012 Standalone Server to a Windows 2012

Cluster describes this procedure. (Migration from a Windows 2003 to a Windows 2008 R2 Cluster is not supported in

Insight Management 7.3.)

Important

Windows Server 2003 clustering was last supported with the Insight Management 6.2 release. Releases after the Insight

Management 6.2 release do not support Windows Server 2003 clustering.

Note

If you need to provide high availability for Systems Insight Manager alone, you might opt to use the white paper mentioned

below instead of this one. If you need high availability, now or later, for several Insight Management products, use the

instructions in this document. This document installs from the Insight Management DVD distribution. The following paper

deploys clustering only for Systems Insight Manager from its distribution:

Deploying HP SIM 7.x on MSCS Clusters on Windows Server 2008 SP2 with SQL Server 2008 SP1