Enterprise Vault™ Installing and Configuring

If you intend to use single instance storage, you need to decide on a sharing regime that is appropriate for your requirements and compatible with your network connection speeds.

• See About Enterprise Vault single instance storage.

• See Developing a suitable sharing regime for Enterprise Vault single instance storage.

For Enterprise Vault to be able to create archives, you must create a vault store group that contains a vault store and at least one vault store partition:

• A vault store group is a container for vault stores. It defines the outer boundary for sharing items in Enterprise Vault single instance storage.

• A vault store is a logical entity to which an Enterprise Vault Storage service archives items. Each vault store has its own vault store database. The vault store database holds information about the archives in the vault store and all the items that are stored in each archive.

• A vault store partition is a physical location where Enterprise Vault stores archived data. Each vault store must contain at least one partition. Partitions can be placed on different physical disks and on various types of storage medium. As the data in a vault store grows, you can create more partitions to provide additional capacity. You can configure the partitions so that archiving rolls over from one partition to another when certain criteria are met.

  If you decide to use the Enterprise Vault classification feature, you can also archive items to special types of partitions called smart partitions. These partitions are identical to standard vault store partitions except in the following ways:

  • You can associate a smart partition with one or more classification tags that you have defined in your chosen classification engine (Veritas Information Classifier or Microsoft File Classification Infrastructure). Only items to which the classification engine has assigned the chosen tags are archived to the smart partition.

  • Multiple smart partitions can be open for archiving at the same time. This is not true of standard vault store partitions, which are limited to one open partition for each vault store.

  • You can configure a standard vault store partition so that Enterprise Vault automatically rolls over to the next available partition when certain criteria are met. This rollover capability is not available for smart partitions.