Veritas Enterprise Vault™ Upgrading from Backup Exec Archiving Option 2010 to Enterprise Vault

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (11.0.1, 11.0, 10.0.4, 10.0.3, 10.0.2, 10.0.1, 10.0)

Creating Enterprise Vault DNS Aliases

During the Backup Exec Archiving Option installation, Backup Exec updates the hosts file on the media server with the DNS aliases required to connect to the Enterprise Vault server. The associated IP address is the loopback address 127.0.0.1.

For example, 

# Created by Backup Exec Archiving Option
127.0.0.1       EnterpriseVaultSite
# Created by Backup Exec Archiving Option
127.0.0.1       EV-BE-2a3a1b4f.greenwood.com

Use these entries to manually create the Enterprise Vault DNS aliases in the domain controller. You need to do this before you use an EMC Celerra device as a target for file server archiving, or before you use the Enterprise Vault Move Archive feature.

Note:

If you are upgrading from Backup Exec Archiving Option 2010 R3 to Enterprise Vault 9.0.2 or later, and if you have installed the Backup Exec Exchange Mailbox Archiving Option, you need to create only the site alias. The Backup Exec installer creates the Enterprise Vault server alias in the domain controller during the upgrade.

To create Enterprise Vault DNS aliases

  1. On the media server, open the hosts file. The hosts file contains the following entries:
    # Created by Backup Exec Archiving Option
127.0.0.1       EnterpriseVaultSite
# Created by Backup Exec Archiving Option
127.0.0.1       EnterpriseVaultServerAlias

    Make a note of the entries for the Enterprise Vault server and Enterprise Vault site aliases.

  2. On the computer that is a domain controller, create the following aliases:

    • Use EnterpriseVaultServerAlias to create the Enterprise Vault server alias.

      Note:

      When you start the Enterprise Vault Administration Console for the first time after the upgrade, you need to enter this value in the Directory Service Computer box to connect to the correct server.

    • Use EnterpriseVaultSite to create the Enterprise Vault site alias.

  3. In the hosts file, comment out the entries for the Enterprise Vault server and Enterprise Vault site aliases.
  4. Run ping from a command prompt window to verify that both the aliases resolve to the correct computer.
  5. Remove the entries from the hosts file.