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
Installing Enterprise Vault (command line)
The command line installation enables you to do the following:
Perform a silent installation of Enterprise Vault.
Run the installation wizard with pre-populated default values.
Repair, modify, or remove an existing installation.
To install Enterprise Vault
- Log in to the Vault Service account.
- Load the Enterprise Vault media.
- Open a Command Prompt window and navigate to the following folder on the Enterprise Vault media:
\Veritas Enterprise Vault\Server
- Run
setup (x64).exe
with the required parameters. See below for details of the parameters.
"setup (x64).exe" /v"COMPONENTS=Option[|Option][...]"
For a silent installation:
start /wait "" "setup (x64).exe" /s /clone_wait /v"COMPONENTS=Option[|Option][...]"
/s | Optional. Silent installation. Must be used with the /wait and /clone_wait parameters. Install Enterprise Vault with the default options. You can use other command line options to override the default values. If you omit this parameter, the installation wizard starts. You can use other command line options to override the wizard's defaults. By overriding the default values you can click through the wizard without the need to select different options. |
/wait | Mandatory if using the /s parameter for a silent installation. |
/clone_wait | Mandatory if using the /s parameter for a silent installation. |
/v | Mandatory. Introduces command options. Use double quotes around the complete option string. For individual options, use a backslash followed by a double quote to delimit any option that contains a space or a backlash. For example: LOGFILE=\"C:\EV.log\" LOGFILE=\"C:\My Logs\EV.log\" |
Use a vertical bar (|) to separate multiple options. For example:
/v"COMPONENTS=VAULT|SMTP"
The options can be any of the following:
BESTPRACTICE | Controls whether to use best practice settings. Possible values are as follows: BESTPRACTICE=0. Do not use best practice settings BESTPRACTICE=1 (default). Use best practice settings |
DOMINOPARTITIONS | Specifies the Domino partitions in which you want to install the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway software. Use a vertical bar to separate multiple partitions. For example, to install into Domino partitions 1 and 2: DOMINOPARTITIONS=1|2 |
ENABLEFEATURES | Controls whether the installer automatically installs all the Windows features and roles that are required by an Enterprise Vault server. Possible values are as follows: ENABLEFEATURES=0 (default). The installer does not install Windows features and roles. ENABLEFEATURES=1.The installer automatically installs all the required Windows features and roles. See Windows features enabled by the Prepare My System option. |
INSTALLDIR | The folder in which to install. The default folder is |
LOGFILE | The path to the installation log file. The default path is |
COMPONENTS | This is a mandatory option when you install. The components can be any of the following:
|
You can override any of the default options. If you omit the /s parameter you can override the options within the installation wizard.
The default options are as follows
Installation location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Enterprise Vault
Domino Partitions: No partitions
Best practice settings: Use best practice settings
Installation log location:
%temp%\EVInstall.log
To install the VAULT component with the default options:
start /wait "" "setup (x64).exe" /s /clone_wait /v"COMPONENTS=VAULT"
To start the installation wizard with the default options, but with the installation log file in D:\Logs\EVinstall.log:
"setup (x64).exe" /v"LOGFILE=\"D:\Logs\EVinstall.log\""
To install the VAULT component in folder D:\myVault:
"setup (x64).exe" /v"INSTALLDIR=\"D:\myVault\" COMPONENTS=VAULT"
To install the VAULT component with the default options but with the installation log file in D:\Logs\EVinstall.log:
start /wait "" "setup (x64).exe" /s /clone_wait /v"LOGFILE=\"D:\Logs\EVinstall.log\" COMPONENTS=VAULT"