Veritas Access Appliance 8.3 Solutions Guide for Enterprise Vault
- Introduction
- System Requirements
- Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault with Access Appliance
- Access Appliance features for Enterprise Vault archival storage
- Access Appliance archival policy configuration for Enterprise Vault
- Configuring CIFS for the Active Directory domain mode
- Access Appliance GUI policies for archival storage
- Configuring the replication job
- Activating the archival policy using GUI
- Configuration of CIFS shares for archival using Veritas Access CLISH
- Storage provisioning using policies
- Configuring Access Appliance storage with Enterprise Vault store partition
- Continuous replication failover and failback
- Configuring replication failover and exporting CIFS share from target cluster
- Troubleshooting
- Index
Activating the archival policy using GUI
Once policy prerequisites are completed (like configuring storage pool and replication set up), you have to activate the archival policy.
Note:
It is recommended that you keep the size of the file system such that there are a maximum of 100 million files on the file system.
For example, if the average size of file object from Enterprise Vault is 50 KB, then the size of the file system should be ~ 100 M x 50K = 5TB.
Note:
To use the archival policy, ensure that you have five disks in the configured pool as the policy creates five-column striped file system layout. Otherwise, you can perform similar operations using the Veritas Access CLISH. See Configuration of CIFS shares for archival using Veritas Access CLISH.
To activate the Enterprise Vault archival policy using GUI
- Log on to the Access Appliance GUI.
- Click on Policies & Select Archival Policy. Activate the required policy by clicking Activate on the policy.
The figure below shows activation of Enterprise Vault WORM policy.
- Select the storage pool during policy activation.
- If any WORM archival policy is getting activated, enter the minimum and maximum retention time. Click Next.
- If any replication archival policy is getting activated, select the required replication link. Click Next. If you are activating a continuous replication policy, then you also need to select the replication mode as either Asynchronous or Synchronous.
- If any continuous replication archival policy is getting activated, then select the required RVG. Click Next.
- Click Finish.
Once you activate the archival policy, storage for archival can be provisioned using the activated policy.
Note:
Enterprise Vault partition rollovers show expected behavior only if there is a one-to-one mapping between the Enterprise Vault partitions and Veritas Access shares.