Deploying HP SIM 6.x on MSCS clusters on Windows 2008 with SQL Server 2008 SP1 White Paper

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Figure
1
: The relationship between HP SIM 6.x, SQL Server 2008, and the cluster disks
System infrastructure
Figure
1
details how to configure a cluster for enhanced per
formance after all components are
installed. With this configuration, you can distribute the load by designing each virtual group to work
on a separate system.
The primary system is for running the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition processor and
handling remote Microsoft SQL Server commands.
The secondary system is for running the HP SIM 6.x service and all the component services it requires.
Storage configuration
Figure
1
displays the relationship between Microsoft SQL
Server 2008 Enterprise Edition instances
and HP SIM 6.x. At least two logical drives must be available in the shared storage if your
infrastructure does not have Microsoft SQL Server installed to which you can attach the HP SIM 6.x
database.
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The first shar
ed disk contains the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition data files. For the
examples discussed in this paper, the drive is I:.
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The other shared disk contains the HP SIM 6.x program files. For the example discussed in this
paper, this drive is F:.