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

Storage provisioning using policies

You have to configure replication and set up the replication VIP and replication link.

To configure replication

  1. On the Quick actions tab on top right corner of the Access Appliance GUI Dashboard, select Provision Storage.
  2. Under Storage type, select Storage for Enterprise Vault. Select any one of the options, Without Replication or With Replication as required. Click Next.
  3. In the EV setup screen, select Create CIFS share.
  4. Expand Basic options to configure the basic CIFS options.

    Under Advanced CIFS export options, check Allow user and user group to give access to the AD user.

    Add the share details and click Provision Storage.

    The share configuration creates an empty directory called ev_archival inside the share, which is used for archival data by Enterprise Vault.

    In the example above, CIFS network share path used for Enterprise Vault is /vx/demoshare/ev_archival

Note:

After the share is created, full permissions should be given to the EV user for the ev_archival directory in a CIFS share from the Windows client (Enterprise Vault server).

To give ownership of ev_archival directory to evuser in EVSC domain using the chown command:

# chown "EVSC\evuser" ev_archival