Managing partition rollover

Each vault store must contain at least one partition, which is the physical location where Enterprise Vault stores archived data. As the data in a vault store grows, you can create more partitions to provide additional capacity.

You can manually change the open partition in a vault store. For example, when the disk that hosts the open partition reaches capacity, close the partition and open a partition on a different disk.

Enterprise Vault also provides an automatic partition rollover feature. This feature lets you configure partitions so that archiving rolls over from one partition to another when certain criteria are met. For example, you can configure a partition to roll over to the next available partition when the host disk has only 5% free space. You can also configure a partition to roll over on a specific date.

In support of both these features, each partition can exist in one of three states: