Deploying HP SIM 6.x on MSCS Clusters on Windows 2008 with SQL Server 2005 White Paper

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Target audience
This white paper is intended for users who
have an ex
cellent understanding of the following concepts
and services:

Basic clustering concepts

Basic Windows 2003 services

Basic Windows 2008 services

Advanced TCP/IP and
Domain Name System (DNS) network concepts
In addition, readers must be familiar with install
ing and administering these products:

Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Server and MSCS

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, particularly named instances

Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise Server and Windows 2008 Failover Clustering
Hardware and so
ftware requirements
This
white
paper discusses configuring and administrating a cluster using the following products
,
which
us
e
a
two
-
system HP ProLiant cluster with each system satisfying all the hardware requirements
for HP
SIM 6.x
.
Note:
For best resul
ts, each system
must
meet the recommended memory and
processor speed requirements.

One free shared disk for the HP SIMO 6.x program files

At least one free shared disk for Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Server with Service Pack
1

Microsoft Cluster Services

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 with Service Pack 1 or later

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 3 or greater

HP SIM 6.x

HP Management CD 7.1 or later and re
lated ProLiant Support Packs
Setting up the failover environment
Note
:
This section of the paper assumes that you log in
to each of your cluster
systems with the same administrator credentials that you are using to access
all of the HP SIM 6.x and Microso
ft SQL Server 2005 components that are
being set up.
Installing SNMP
SNMP is a prerequisite for the HP SIM 6.x installation. The following section details how to install
SNMP to the cluster systems intended to host HP SIM 6.x.