Enterprise Vault™ Installing and Configuring
- About this guide
- Section I. Enterprise Vault requirements
- Enterprise Vault hardware requirements
- Hardware requirements for Enterprise Vault server
- About the storage requirements for Enterprise Vault
- Storage for vault stores
- Storage requirements for SQL databases
- Enterprise Vault required software and settings
- Basic software requirements for Enterprise Vault
- Best practice settings for Enterprise Vault servers
- Preinstallation tasks for Enterprise Vault server
- About assigning permissions and roles in SQL databases
- Additional requirements for Operations Manager
- Additional requirements for classification
- Additional requirements for Enterprise Vault Reporting
- Additional requirements for Exchange Server archiving
- Preinstallation tasks for Exchange server archiving
- Assigning Exchange Server permissions to the Vault Service account
- Enterprise Vault client access with Exchange Server archiving
- Requirements for RPC over HTTP
- Additional requirements for Domino Server archiving
- Requirements for Domino mailbox archiving
- Register the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway
- About the user ID for Domino mailbox archiving
- Requirements for Domino journaling archiving
- Additional requirements for File System Archiving (FSA)
- Additional requirements for SharePoint Server archiving
- Additional requirements for Skype for Business Archiving
- Additional requirements for SMTP Archiving
- Additional requirements for Enterprise Vault Search
- Additional requirements for a standalone Enterprise Vault Administration Console
- Additional requirements for the Archive Discovery Search Service
- Enterprise Vault hardware requirements
- Section II. Installing Enterprise Vault
- Section III. Configuring Enterprise Vault
- About configuring Enterprise Vault
- Running the Enterprise Vault configuration wizard
- Securing Enterprise Vault Web Access components
- Running the Enterprise Vault Getting Started wizard
- About the express and custom modes of the Enterprise Vault Getting Started wizard
- About indexing configuration with the Enterprise Vault Getting Started wizard
- About storage configuration with the Enterprise Vault Getting Started wizard
- Configuring Enterprise Vault Operations Manager
- Configuring the Archive Discovery Search Service
- Section IV. Initial Enterprise Vault setup
- Initial Enterprise Vault setup
- Setting up storage
- About Enterprise Vault single instance storage
- About creating vault stores
- About Enterprise Vault safety copies
- About Enterprise Vault safety copies
- Creating vault store partitions
- Adding index locations
- Setting up Index Server groups
- Do I need to create Index Server groups?
- Reviewing the default settings for the site
- Setting up Enterprise Vault Search
- Setting up provisioning groups for Enterprise Vault Search
- Configuring user browsers for Enterprise Vault Search
- Setting up Enterprise Vault Search Mobile edition
- Managing metadata stores
- Section V. Clustering Enterprise Vault with VCS
- Introducing clustering with VCS
- Installing and configuring Storage Foundation HA for Windows
- Configuring the VCS service group for Enterprise Vault
- Running the Enterprise Vault Configuration wizard
- Setting up Enterprise Vault in an active/passive VCS configuration
- About setting up Enterprise Vault in a VCS N+1 configuration
- Implementing an SFW HA-VVR disaster recovery solution with Enterprise Vault
- Troubleshooting clustering with VCS
- Section VI. Clustering Enterprise Vault with Windows Server Failover Clustering
- Introducing clustering with Windows Server Failover Clustering
- Control of Enterprise Vault services in a Windows Server failover cluster
- Preparing to cluster with Windows Server Failover Clustering
- Configuring Enterprise Vault in a Windows Server failover cluster
- Setting up a new Enterprise Vault installation with Windows Server Failover Clustering support
- Examples of Enterprise Vault installations in various Windows Server Failover Clustering modes
- Converting an existing Enterprise Vault installation to a Windows Server failover cluster
- Modifying an existing Enterprise Vault cluster
- Troubleshooting clustering with Windows Server Failover Clustering
- Introducing clustering with Windows Server Failover Clustering
- Appendix A. Automatically preparing an Enterprise Vault server
Adding VCS cluster support in a first-time Enterprise Vault installation
You must run the Enterprise Vault Configuration wizard on each node of the cluster. On the first node, choose the option to create a new Enterprise Vault server with cluster support. On each additional node, choose the option to add it as a failover node for an existing clustered server.
If you want to add the Enterprise Vault SMTP service as a generic service resource, then you must install the Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving components with the Enterprise Vault server on all the nodes in the cluster.
To create a new Enterprise Vault server with cluster support
- Start the Enterprise Vault Configuration wizard.
- Click Create a new Enterprise Vault server with cluster support, and then click Next.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
Note the following important points as you proceed through the wizard:
When the wizard prompts you for the computer DNS alias, enter an unqualified DNS alias that points to the virtual server name.
Take care to review the storage locations for the Indexing and Shopping services, when the wizard prompts you to do so.
When the wizard prompts you to select the data locations, specify a server cache location that is on a shared drive in the cluster.
- In the Finish page, ensure that Bring all the resources online is cleared, and then click Finish.
Follow the steps below to set the path to the index metadata folder, which must be on a shared drive in the cluster. The index metadata folder is the folder in which Enterprise Vault stores indexing configuration data and reporting data.
Use the Cluster Manager console to bring the Enterprise Vault Directory service and Admin service online.
In the left pane of the Enterprise Vault Administration Console, browse to Enterprise Vault Servers > EVServer.domain.local > Services.
In the right pane, right-click Enterprise Vault Indexing Service, and then click Properties.
On the General tab of the Service Properties dialog box, set the Index metadata location path to that of the shared drive in the cluster (for example,
V:\indexmetadata
).Click OK to save the change that you have made.
Use the Cluster Manager console to bring the Enterprise Vault Indexing service online
- After you have configured the server on the first node, run the wizard from each additional node that you want to configure as a failover node.
Note that the path to the Enterprise Vault program folder must be the same on all nodes in the cluster; for example,
C:\Program Files (x86)\Enterprise Vault
. If the path varies from one node to another, problems can occur during failover.
To add a failover node for an existing clustered server
- Ensure that the Enterprise Vault service group is online on a different node in the cluster. The service group must not be online on the node that you are configuring. The node that you are configuring must be a possible failover node for the resources.
- If the Enterprise Vault SMTP service is included as a generic service resource in the service group, then ensure that you install the Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving components with the Enterprise Vault server on the failover node.
- Start the Enterprise Vault Configuration wizard.
- Click Add this node as a failover node for an existing clustered server, and then click Next.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
When the wizard prompts you for the name of the service group to which you want to add the node, select the name of the service group that you chose for the first node.
- In the summary page, review the information, and then click Next.
The wizard informs you that it will create the Enterprise Vault service group on the new node.
- In the Finish page, click Finish to exit the wizard.
- Check that you can bring the resources online on the failover node. You can do this with Cluster Explorer, by clicking Switch To on the context menu.