Enterprise Vault single instance storage places some additional requirements on a system, as follows:

• Storage space for the fingerprint database. When you use Enterprise Vault single instance storage the fingerprint database may grow very rapidly. To ensure acceptable archiving and retrieval performance, it is important to configure the fingerprint database appropriately for the amount of sharing in the vault store group.

• Network connectivity requirements. An Enterprise Vault server communicates with the following computers when it stores or retrieves items using Enterprise Vault single instance storage:

  • The computers that host the vault store partitions for the vault stores that are within the vault store's sharing boundary.

  • The computer that hosts the vault store group's fingerprint database.

  Network connection speeds must be fast enough across these connections to provide acceptable storage and retrieval times.