Technical white paper HP technical white paper Installing and upgrading HP Insight Management 7.3 on Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters HP Insight Management 7.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Table of contents Abstract ..................................................................................................................................................................................4 Introduction............................................................................................................................................................................5 Summary of the Insight Management high availability solution .......
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Configuring the cluster for operations ........................................................................................................................ 40 Using the Cluster Validation Wizard to verify the storage configuration .................................................................... 42 Appendix A: Summary of Insight Management cluster resources ...............................................................................
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Abstract Using Failover Clustering with HP Insight Management is a simple way of achieving redundancy, availability, load balancing, and failover capability for this powerful management software. This white paper is intended to assist IT professionals with one or more of the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Install Insight Management 7.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Introduction The HP Insight Management media set provides an installer to quickly and accurately deploy, configure, integrate, and update HP Insight Management products. For more information about the individual components delivered with HP Insight Management, visit http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/docs.
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Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Table notes: 1 By using the Insight Installer’s Customize button, components from this table can be selected for installation. This component may require special configuration to run in a CMS cluster as described later in this whitepaper.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Note: As seen in the figure above, the cluster nodes, Failover Cluster virtual server, and HP SIM virtual server can be configured either in an IPv4 only environment or in a dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6) environment. At this point communication over IPv6 address to database from SIM is not supported; hence SQL Server virtual server should be configured with IPv4 address only.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 In addition, readers must be familiar with installing and administering these products: • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 Standard and Failover Clustering • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise or Standard Edition SP1, particularly named instances Hardware, software, storage, systems, and network requirements This white paper discusses installing and configuring a cluster using the following products and resources.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 • Two private disks, one for each ProLiant system’s boot drive, disk C: • One shared disk for the cluster witness, disk W: • One shared disk for Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, disk T: • One shared disk for Microsoft SQL Server, disk S: • One shared disk for the Insight Management program files, disk V: HP recommends that SAN storage be used for boot disks as well as shared disks.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 white paper, the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are 15.199.192.147 and 2620:0000:0a04:f115:0000:0000:0000:66, and the name is CMS-C17-MATRIX. 3. Microsoft SQL Server virtual server and client access point Function: To act as the virtual server IP address and name for the Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise database software This software is used to extract, manipulate, or back up the Insight Management and Systems Insight Manager databases.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Setting up the failover environment This section covers setting up the cluster environment in preparation for installing SQL Server 2012 and Insight Management.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 10. Review the Results screen, click Close, and then reboot if indicated. 11. In the left pane of Server Manager, click App Server. In the right pane, scroll down to ROLES AND FEATURES. Your display should look like Figure 2. Figure 2: Application Server Role Services from Server Manager See Distributed Transaction Support for Application Server located at: http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/cc772014.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Activating the HP Cluster MIB agents The HP Cluster MIB Agents provide information about your cluster through SNMP. It is a prerequisite for Systems Insight Manager that these MIB agents be installed on your cluster to discover and identify itself as a cluster and recognize its systems as such. On each system, activate the HP Cluster MIB Agents: 1. Click Start Control Panel. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. On the View by: menu, select Small icons.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Step # Step Description Notes 4 Validate a New or Existing Failover Cluster: 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. http://technet.micro soft.com/enus/library/cc772450. aspx and http://technet.micro soft.com/enus/library/jj134244.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 3. 4. 5. by the wizard as cluster storage after the cluster creation. If you did not select the checkbox, follow the next step. Otherwise, Skip to step 4. In Failover Cluster Manager, add the three disks just configured, one at a time in the following order: disk T:, disk S: and disk V: (as used in this white paper; see Storage). A. In the left pane, right-click Disks under Storage, and then click Add disk. B.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1 A clustered instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise or Standard SP1 is required for Insight Management components to become highly available. If you already have installed a suitable named instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2012, you can skip to Installing Insight Management components on the cluster and specify this instance when prompted.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 For additional information on DTC, see: • Requirements for Creating an MS DTC Resource in a Failover Cluster, http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/cc770748(WS.10).aspx • Understanding MS DTC Resources in Windows Server Failover Clusters, http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/cc730992(WS.10).aspx • Administering Distributed Transactions, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755134(WS.10).
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 .NET 3.5 SP1 is a requirement for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 when you select Database Engine. Install it on both cluster nodes before the SQL Server 2012 Failover Cluster installation. See the Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2012 at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506.aspx.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Note: If you select Reporting Services or other additional features, there may be configuration screens in addition to the ones described. 10. Feature Rules: Runs tests and produces a results display. Verify all tests are Passed and then click Next. 11. Instance Configuration: A. Enter the Network Name provisioned for the SQL Server virtual server. This white paper uses cms-c17-sql. B. Select Named instance and enter an instance name.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 25. To validate the installation, in Failover Cluster Manager, expand the cluster and its Roles folder, and click on the name of the cluster resource group you selected above for this SQL Server instance. Make sure that all resources shown in the middle pane are Online. This completes the SQL Server installation on the primary system. To complete the high availability cluster configuration of SQL Server, continue the installation on the secondary system.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 • Features Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2012; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en- us/library/cc645993.aspx#High_availability Applying updates to the SQL Server 2012 Enterprise or Standard SP1 SQL Server uses an Incremental Servicing Model (ISM). The model is described in An Incremental Servicing Model is available from the SQL Server team to deliver hotfixes for reported problems at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935897/.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 8. At this point the cluster group for Systems Insight Manager and Insight Management has been created, the client access point resource is defined and is online, and disk resource is defined and online as shown in Figure 7.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 iii. iv. 5. 6. Selectively enable or disable each IP address by setting Enable to Yes or No. For each enabled IP, set the value of TCP Dynamic Ports to blank and TCP Port to your selected static port number. Record the static port number for use when Insight Management is installed. Then click OK. Restart SQL Server to apply the changes.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Tips on the process of installing Insight Management components In the following sections a fresh install of Insight Management is performed on both cluster nodes. You will install Insight Management 7.3 on the primary system. Optionally, you can install an Insight Management 7.3 update immediately afterwards if you need to apply an update. Then you will repeat the process for the secondary system.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 6. selection. See Table 1. If you are installing a CMS cluster that will be part of a federated CMS environment, see the Primary CMS and Secondary CMS columns. After verifying the components for installation, the process for installing a federated or non-federated CMS cluster is the same. [ICG: Step 14,15] The Insight Management DVD #2 Selection screen appears when you are installing or upgrading components or suites that reside on DVD #2.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Note: It is not advised to run Insight Management or configure Insight Management on the primary cluster node at this time. The installation on secondary cluster node is required to be completed before these tasks are performed.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 information about installing an update. See How to run the Incremental Update Installer in Appendix C for details about running the incremental installer. If you also installed Insight Management Software Patches on the primary system, install the same on the secondary system at this point in the installation procedure. See Appendix D: Applying Insight Management Software Patches for more details.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 4. When the wizard exits, the new resource is listed under Roles in the Resources tab in the center pane. To run the New Resource Wizard to create a Generic Script: 1. In the center pane of Failover Cluster Manager, right-click the Systems Insight Manager Group, mouse-over Add resource and click Generic Script. The New Resource Wizard launches. 2. On the Generic Script Info screen: enter the script location (including the script file name). 3.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Creating the generic service resource: HP Version Control Repository Manager 1. Use the New Resource Wizard to create a generic service: A. Select the HP Version Control Repository Manager service. B. The Confirmation screen shows Service: HP Version Control Repository Manager (cpqsrhmo). 2. Add the following dependencies to the new resource’s properties: HP SIM Disk and HP SIM Network Name.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 2. A. Select the HP Extensible Storage & Server Adapter service. B. The Confirmation screen shows Service: Extensible Storage & Server Adapter (osa). Add the following dependencies to the new resource’s properties: HP SIM Disk and HP SIM Network Name. Creating the generic service resource: HP Storage Provisioning Manager Service 1. Use the New Resource Wizard to create a generic service: A. Select the HP Storage Provisioning Manager Service. B.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 A. 3. On the Services console, change the startup type for the HP Matrix infrastructure bursting connecter service from Disabled to Manual. Use the New Resource Wizard to create a generic service: A. Select the HP Matrix infrastructure bursting connecter service. The Confirmation screen shows Service: HP Matrix infrastructure bursting connecter (hpio-connecter). 4.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Bringing online the Insight Management clustered service In the center pane of Failover Cluster Manager, right-click the HP SIM Group, in this white paper cms-c17-matrix, and select Start Role. If configured properly, all resources should come online, as shown in Figure 9.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 right-click it, then click bring this resource online. The resource and any others on which it is dependent are brought online. Note the asymmetry of operation. When taking a resource offline results in many other resources also being taken offline, it is often easiest to bring all of them back online by right-clicking the group in which they are members, and then clicking Start Role. To restart a service, take it offline and then bring it back online.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 5. 6. 7. 8. In Systems Insight Manager, navigate to the All Systems page. A. A system with the name of the Failover Cluster virtual server, in this white paper CMS-C17-CLUSTER, should be present. B. Click this name in the System Name column and verify that Cluster Monitor is invoked. If the cluster is set up in a dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6 both), both IP addresses must be listed on the screen against the Cluster virtual server. C.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 D. E. F. G. Under Schedule, clear the box used to select automatic scheduling. In the system name/IP field enter the FQDN of the Systems Insight Manager virtual server name. Click Credentials. The Sign-in tab is selected. Under Use these credentials, enter the SQL/IM Administrator account credentials (for example, domain\username and password). H. Clear the If these credentials fail box. I.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 hosting the cluster service. To find a workaround to this problem, see the Troubleshooting section of the Systems Insight Manager 7.3 User Guide. 17. In the left pane, click All Systems. You should see a display like the one in Figure 10. Figure 10: Two-node Insight Management Failover Cluster on ProLiant Server Blades after HP SIM discovery 18. Click the virtual server name of the Failover Cluster; cms-C17-cluster in Figure 10.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 The drop down menu for Primary IP should also list the IPv6 address of the HP SIM virtual server, if configured in a dual stack environment. 20. After verifying the discovery of cluster nodes and HP SIM virtual server, go back to the Options tab and select Federated CMS Configuration. Select the default CMS shown, then click Delete CMS… and Yes to confirm deletion. Next, click Add CMS...
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 2. 3. Launch SMH through the icon left on the desktop from its installation or from Start All Programs HP Management Agents HP System Management Homepage. In SMH navigate to Settings Security Trust Mode and configure as appropriate for your local environment. HP Version Control 1. Log in to Windows using the SQL/IM Administrator account on the node that currently owns the resources associated with Systems Insight Manager. 2.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. Expand the Remote Action Services node. Double-click the RAS_Operator_Path property. Check out the property by clicking the padlock. Update the URL field to include the fully qualified Systems insight Manager virtual server name or the Systems Insight Manager virtual server IP address. Check in the property by clicking the padlock. Enter a comment and click OK. Click the Remote Action Services link at the top of the page.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Users should always browse to Systems Insight Manager and Insight Management using the Systems Insight Manager virtual server name (for example, http://cms-hpsim.fqdn:280/).
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Using the Cluster Validation Wizard to verify the storage configuration The Cluster Validation Wizard runs a comprehensive suite of tests on your cluster, including its storage configuration. The wizard should be run whenever you change the configuration of the cluster or replace a hardware component. Successful completion of the wizard ensures that your cluster is properly configured and is a requirement for cluster support.
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Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Expected downtime During the upgrade, Insight Management services are not available. The amount of time to upgrade a two-node cluster is approximately the time to do the following: • Create a complete backup of the cluster primary and secondary systems including the Insight Management, SQL Server, Cluster Quorum, and Distributed Transaction Coordinator shared disks. • Install the new version of Insight Management on the primary system.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Review the Insight Management installation requirements listed in the HP Insight Management 7.3 Support Matrix, especially the Requirements for non-OS software and Supported browsers; and also review the HP Insight Management 7.3 Preinstallation Worksheet. Make sure the components listed are installed on each node.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 xviii. G. H. HP Logical Server Automation xix. RSScheduler xx. RSJRAS xxi. RSCentral xxii. HP Matrix Infrastructure Orchestration xxiii. HP Matrix Infrastructure chargeback xxiv. HP Matrix infrastructure bursting connecter Verify that Systems Insight Manager has completed its startup by logging into the Systems Insight Manager service through a client Web browser.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 To use this option, enter the location of DVD #2 in the Specify an alternate drive for DVD #2 box, or click Browse to search for the DVD. Then click Next. M. Review the installation software prerequisites and press the Next button to run the verification tests. N. In the screen for configuring the Installation Directory, the path is already set to the current value. Click Next. O.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 F. G. xi. HP Agentless Collection for Linux Systems xii. HP Capacity Advisor Data Service xiii. HP Extensible Storage & Server Adapter xiv. HP SPM Storage Module J2EE Service xv. HP SPM Storage Module Service xvi. HP Storage Provisioning Manager xvii. HP Storage Provisioning Manager Service xviii. HP Logical Server Automation xix. RSScheduler xx. RSJRAS xxi. RSCentral xxii. HP Matrix Infrastructure Orchestration xxiii.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 I. Run the Insight Management Advisor to confirm that all the installation requirements are met. Select Filter, and then Customize. Select the same products that you chose on the primary system. Only select products which are supported in a highly available environment. See Table 1 for the list of Components supported in a highly available environment. Click OK and Run Now.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 vi. C. [1]: If HP Matrix Operating Environment is installed, replace the resource HP Agentless Collection for Linux Systems with the HP Capacity Advisor Data Service resource: i. In Failover Cluster Manager, in the center pane, right-click the HP Agentless Collection for Linux Systems resource, select Delete, and confirm. ii. D. E.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 B. C. If you are using Matrix recovery management, upgrade the remote site by following the steps in the Configuring the CMS, managed systems, and products section of the HP Insight Management 7.3 Installation and Configuration Guide. On the secondary system, run Administrative Tools Services and then stop the following Insight Management services in the order listed below. Ensure the state of each service before moving to the next step. i.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Appendix C: Applying Insight Management Incremental Updates This appendix describes how to apply an Insight Management incremental update (patch) to Insight Management in a Failover Cluster. An Insight Management incremental update is a patch that is applied to a major release. For example, an Insight Management 7.3 update is a patch for Insight Management 7.3. Insight Management 7.3 must already be installed before installing an Insight Management 7.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Option 3: Installing an Incremental update after installing a major release Appendix B: Upgrading clustered Insight Management describes upgrading Insight Management in a cluster. It discusses applying an incremental update after installing a major release—applying an incremental update to an existing installation of Insight Management. The steps from Appendix B: Upgrading clustered Insight Management is summarized as follows. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Appendix D: Applying Insight Management Software Patches This appendix provides an overview of the steps to apply Insight Management Software patches during or after an upgrade to a major release. Before applying the patch, the Insight Management software should be installed on the system. To install an Insight Management Software Patch, follow the instructions provided in the patch README.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 8. Perform validation and final configuration steps. Option 3: Installing a patch after installing a major Insight Management release The main body of this whitepaper describes installing Insight Management in a cluster. It also discusses applying an incremental update, if applicable, and any applicable Insight Management Software Patches after Insight Management release install.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 B. 2. Configure the new cluster systems, Insight Management, and the SQL server with the same administrator passwords as in the source cluster. The SQL Server may be installed on the same Insight Management cluster or on another cluster in the same domain. On the source cluster or Standalone Server, follow the instructions in the Data Migration of an existing Microsoft Windows CMS to a new Insight Management 7.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 Under the “Parameters” section at the beginning of the script, the values of the parameters are defined in quotes, separated by “_” with the actual value.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 HP white papers from previous Insight Management releases Table 6 White papers for previous Insight Management releases Operation Release Title with link to document Install, upgrade 7.2 Installing and upgrading HP Insight Mangement 7.2 on Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters Backup, restore 7.2 Backing up and restoring HP Insight Management 7.2 Central Management Server (Windows) Migrate 7.
Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3 http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html. Select Download drivers and software (and firmware), enter ProLiant Support Pack into the product field and click the search button (>>). On the next page click Microsoft Windows Server 2012. • For HP Boot from SAN information, see HP Boot from SAN Configuration Guide and Boot from SAN. • Download HP HPIO DSM for Windows from HP website.
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