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

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Installing the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition
The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Editio
n is required for the installation of HP SIM 6.x to be
highly available. If you already have an instance of Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition installed,
then
you can create the HP SIM 6.x database and attach it to the existing server.
Note:
This sec
tion assumes that you already have a working two
-
system cluster
with at least two free logical drives, one for the Microsoft SQL Server 2005
data files and another for the HP SIM 6.x program files.
Installing a clustered instance of the Microsoft SQL Serve
r 2005
Enterprise Edition on first node
1.
Insert the
Microsoft SQL 2005 Extended Edition CD
.
You must have
the
SQL Server 2005 Installation
setup window
set to
open automatically.
2.
Click
Install
. The installation begins. The user license agreement appears.
3.
Ac
cept the license agreement
,
and then click
Next
.
4.
The
Prerequisites
window appears if it is not installed. Click
Install
.
Figure 2: Installing Prerequisites