About vault stores on upgrade to Enterprise Vault 8.0

If you upgrade to Enterprise Vault 8.0, Enterprise Vault does the following for each Enterprise Vault site:

It creates a vault store group named the Default Upgrade Group, without a fingerprint database.
It places the site's existing vault stores into the Default Upgrade Group.
It sets the sharing level of each existing vault store to "No sharing".

If you add a vault store to the Default Upgrade Group, Enterprise Vault sets its sharing level to "No sharing", unless you configure sharing for the group.

Note that Enterprise Vault does not use single instance storage in the Default Upgrade Group unless you configure sharing for that group. No sharing occurs even if your vault stores were configured to use single instance storage before the upgrade.

Before you configure sharing for the Default Upgrade Group, consider what sort of sharing regime you require. You can move a vault store to a different vault store group only if the vault store has not participated in Enterprise Vault 8.0 single instance storage sharing.

To configure sharing in the Default Upgrade Group, run the Configure Sharing wizard. The wizard prompts you to create a fingerprint database for the group before you configure the sharing levels.

Note:

Ensure that you then back up the fingerprint database.

See "Enterprise Vault backup procedures" in the Administrator's Guide.