Deploying HP SIM 5.x on MSCS clusters on Windows 2003 with SQL Server 2005 481363-002, 02/2009

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5.
MSCS secondary sy
stem IP address and name
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Function: To serve as the TCP/IP address and name of the specific Microsoft Windows server
host.
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Suggested action: Any software that references system
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specific functions uses this address to
connect to this system. For the examples
shown in this paper, the IP address is 140.110.240.61.
Target audience
It is assumed that readers of this document have an excellent understanding of the following concepts
and services:
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Basic clustering concepts
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Basic Windows 2003 services
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Advanced TCP/I
P and
Domain Name System (DNS) network concepts
In addition, readers must be familiar with installing and administering these products:
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Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Server and MSCS
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Microsoft
SQL Server 2005
Enterprise Edition, particularly named insta
nces
Hardware and software requirements
This paper discusses configuring and administrating a cluster using the following products:

A two
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system HP ProLiant cluster with each system satisfying all the hardware requirements for
HP
SIM 5.x
Note
: For best res
ults, each system should meet the recommended memory and processor speed
requirements.
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One free shared disk for the HP SIMO 5.x program files
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At least one free shared disk for Microsoft
SQL Server 2005
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Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Server with Service
Pack 1
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Microsoft Cluster Services
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 with Service Pack 1 or later
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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
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Microsoft
SQL Server 2005
Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 4
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HP SIM 5.x
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HP Management CD 7.1 or later and related P
roLiant Support Packs
Setting up the failover environment
Note
: This section of the paper assumes that you log into each of your cluster systems with the same
administrator credentials that you are using to access all of the HP SIM 5.x and Microsoft SQL Se
rver
2005
components that are being set up.
Installing SNMP
SNMP is a prerequisite for the HP SIM 5.x installation. The following section details how to install
SNMP to the cluster systems intended to host HP SIM 5.x.