Installing and upgrading HP Insight Management 7.3 on Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters

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.

The cluster monitors the Insight Management and Microsoft SQL Server clustered services. If a clustered service fails, the

cluster takes action as determined by policy. The cluster can restart a resource on the same node or fail over the clustered

service by automatically presenting its shared storage to the other system, moving its virtual server, and restarting the

clustered service there.

Getting started

This white paper documents how to install Insight Management on a new two-node Microsoft Failover Cluster.

The major steps are as follows:

• Set up the failover environment

• Install the SQL Server 2012 SP1 instance in the cluster

• Install and configure Insight Management in the cluster

If a clustered Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise or Standard SP1 instance exists in the same domain but in a different

cluster than the one in which Insight Management is to run, you may use this instance and skip the installation of a new SQL

Server 2012 SP1 instance in the Insight Management cluster. In this case, you can also skip the allocation of the client

access point IP addresses and network names and the shared disks for Microsoft SQL Server and for Microsoft Distributed

Transaction Coordinator.

Otherwise, the SQL Server instance created below will be used to host the databases required by Insight Management.

Target audience

It is assumed that readers of this document have an excellent understanding of the following concepts and services:

• Basic clustering concepts

• Basic Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 services

• Advanced TCP/IP and DNS network concepts