Veritas Access Appliance 8.1 Solutions Guide for Enterprise Vault

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Product(s): Appliances (8.1)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About this document
    2.  
      About Access Appliance as archival storage for Enterprise Vault
    3.  
      Access Appliance versions certified by Enterprise Vault
  2. System Requirements
    1.  
      Server roles
    2.  
      Hardware requirements
    3.  
      Software requirements
  3. Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault with Access Appliance
    1.  
      Enterprise Vault deployment
    2.  
      Access Appliance deployment
  4. Access Appliance features for Enterprise Vault archival storage
    1.  
      Write-Once-Read-Many support
    2.  
      Partition Secure Notification
  5. Access Appliance archival policy configuration for Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      Configuring CIFS for the Active Directory domain mode
    2.  
      Access Appliance GUI policies for archival storage
    3.  
      Configuring the replication job
    4.  
      Configuring the archival policy using GUI
    5.  
      Configuration of CIFS shares for archival using Veritas Access CLISH
    6.  
      Storage provisioning using policies
    7.  
      Configuring Access Appliance storage with Enterprise Vault store partition
    8. Episodic replication job failover and failback
      1.  
        Process summary
      2.  
        Overview of the planned failover process
      3.  
        Overview of the planned failback process
      4.  
        Overview of the unplanned failover process
      5.  
        Overview of the unplanned failback process
    9. Continuous replication failover and failback
      1.  
        Process summary
      2.  
        Overview of the planned failover process
      3.  
        Overview of the planned failback process
      4.  
        Overview of the unplanned failover process
      5.  
        Overview of the unplanned failback process
    10.  
      Configuring replication failover and exporting CIFS share from target cluster
  6. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Log locations for troubleshooting
    2.  
      Additional resources
  7.  
    Index

Hardware requirements

Four physical or virtual servers are required to host the following:

1. Active Directory and Domain Controller server

2. SQL server

The SQL servers should have the following minimum specifications:

  • Number of CPUs: 8 (recommended)

  • Power of CPUs: 2.8 GHz or more

  • Memory: 16 GB (recommended)

The SQL server requires three fast local partitions (composed of one or more disks) to hold the following:

  • SQL Server installation (OS Drive)

  • SQL Server Data

  • SQL Server Logs

3. Enterprise Vault server

The Enterprise Vault servers should have the following minimum specifications:

  • Number of CPUs: 8 (recommended)

  • Power of CPUs: 2.8 GHz or more

  • Memory: 16 GB (recommended)

Each Enterprise Vault server requires three fast local partitions (composed of one or more disks) to hold the following:

Table:

Disk use

Disk size (minimum)

OS Drive:

Enterprise Vault installation

Enterprise Vault Cache

Enterprise Vault Storage Queue

100 GB

Enterprise Vault Indexes

75 GB

Target data for archiving

This disk is only required for EVSCEV01

75 GB

4. Access Appliance cluster

See the Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide for the system requirements.