Enterprise Vault™ Introduction and Planning

How to plan vault stores and partitions

Consider where to create vault stores and partitions and the most appropriate type of storage devices to use. For example, some devices provide a large amount of secure storage (WORM) at reasonable cost, which may suit a compliance archiving strategy.

For standard vault store partitions, Enterprise Vault's partition rollover feature provides automatic rollover from one partition to another to support continuous archiving. For example, when the physical disk that hosts your open partition reaches capacity, Enterprise Vault can automatically close the partition and open another. This rollover capability is not available for smart partitions. On the other hand, multiple smart partitions can be open for archiving at the same time. This is not true of standard partitions, which are limited to one open partition for each vault store.

Where vault store partitions are held on non-WORM devices other than Dell EMC Centera, the speed and efficiency of vault store backups can be improved by using the Enterprise Vault "collection" feature. This feature collects multiple small files into CAB files. Collection is not recommended on devices that perform deduplication, as it causes loss of deduplication.