Enterprise Vault™ Installing and Configuring

To create a standard vault store partition

1. If you created a vault store using the New Vault Store wizard, the New Partition wizard starts automatically. Go to step 7.
2. In the left pane of the Administration Console, expand the Enterprise Vault site hierarchy until Vault Store Groups is visible.
3. Expand the Vault Store Groups container to show the existing vault store groups.
4. Expand the vault store group that contains the vault store for which you want to create the partition.
5. Expand the vault store in which you want to create the partition.
6. Right-click the Partitions container, and then click New > Partition.

   The New Partition wizard starts.

7. The New Partition wizard takes you through the steps to create a partition.

   You need to provide the following information:

   • The partition name and description.

   • Whether the new partition should be created closed, open or ready. There can only be one open partition. If you create an open partition, any existing open partition is closed.

   • The type of device on which the partition is to be created. Select the required type of storage device from the drop-down list. The additional information that you need to provide depends on which device type you select. For help with the options, see the Administration Console help for the wizard pages.

   • The location on the device for the new partition. The location can be entered as a UNC path or a path that starts with a drive letter. For a network location, enter the full UNC path rather than a mapped network drive path.

     Note:

     Do not specify the location of an existing partition, or a location that includes any folders that are associated with an existing partition. Take particular care to avoid the overlap of partition folders when using network shares or mount points. You may suffer data loss if any folder is associated with more than one partition.

     The Storage service does not start if it detects that two partitions share the same path.

     Enterprise Vault assumes that the partition root path is empty. Do not use the root path to hold files or folders other than those that Enterprise Vault creates.

     The Storage service creates a network share for a partition if you specify the storage type as NTFS Volume and you specify a local path such as H:\... as the location. The Storage services on remote Enterprise Vault servers use the partition network share when they require access to the data on the partition.

     See Partition network shares for NTFS partitions with local paths.

     If you specify a UNC path that includes an administrative share, such as \\server\H$\partitionlocation, then administrative shares must always be enabled. If you disable the server's administrative shares, Enterprise Vault is unable to access the partition.

   • The storage settings that are used by the storage device. Enterprise Vault uses this information to help optimize data storage. For more details, see the Administration Console help for the wizard pages.

     With the exception of the storage mode, you can change the storage settings later from the Volume tab of the partition's properties.

     If you change the storage settings on the device at a later date, you must update the related storage settings on the Volume tab of the partition's properties to reflect the new behavior.

   • For partitions on Centera devices, whether to enable device-level sharing.

   • Partition rollover criteria if you choose to enable the feature for this partition.

     Although you can create ready partitions on Centera devices, you cannot enable onward rollover from a Centera-hosted partition.

   • Whether to use Security ACLs. This option does not apply to Centera devices. It is usual to create a vault store partition with security ACLs on the folders in the partition. Some optical devices, however, do not allow Enterprise Vault to add the ACLs.

     See Securing data locations.

   • How to check whether items have been secured.

   • Whether to use file collection software. If you choose to use collection files you can configure the collection criteria, and optionally provide details of how and when to migrate the collection files to secondary storage.