Installing and upgrading HP Insight Management 7.3 on Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3
Step # Step Description Notes
4 Validate a New or
Existing Failover
Cluster:
http://technet.micro
soft.com/en-
us/library/cc772450.
aspx
and
http://technet.micro
soft.com/en-
us/library/jj134244.
aspx
If the cluster’s domain controllers are on the private network, the
network binding order should remain public first, then private.
However, this may produce a warning for the Network binding order
test. If this occurs, it is acceptable to proceed.
5 Create a New
Failover Cluster:
http://technet.micro
soft.com/en-
us/library/dn505754
.aspx
and
http://blogs.msdn.co
m/b/clustering/archi
ve/2012/05/01/102
99698.aspx
If you are creating a cluster using the client access points from a
previously “destroyed” cluster and receive errors while doing so, use
Active Directory (
Start
Administrative Tools
Active Directory
Users and Computers
) to delete the entries for these client access
points from the
Computers
folder. (Destroying a cluster does not
delete these entries from the
Computers
folder.)
In the wizard screen titled Access Point for Administering the Cluster,
enter the IP address and network name you have provisioned for the
Failover Cluster. This white paper uses 15.199.192.144 and CMS-C17-
CLUSTER.
The Quorum model for your two-node cluster is
Node and Disk
Majority
.
Upon completion of cluster creation you should see a screen similar to Figure 3.
Figure 3: Create Cluster Wizard Summary screen
After the cluster has been successfully formed, continue under the same account and with both cluster nodes online to
complete the following steps:
1. Click Start Administrative Tools Computer Management Disk Management. Select Online, then Initialize, and
finally create
New Simple Volumes… for the remaining three shared disks. The volume type for shared disks must be
Basic. MBR or GPT partitions may be used.
2. If all the disks were presented to the servers and initialized prior to the cluster creation and if you had selected the
check box for
Add all eligible storage in the cluster in the Create Cluster Wizard, the disks will be automatically added
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