Storage for vault stores

The Enterprise Vault Storage service computer needs access to storage for the vault stores.

Enterprise Vault is very versatile in its use of storage for the vault stores, and is designed to operate with various types of storage solution provided by third party software and hardware products. Many storage solutions provide high performance archiving and retrieval.

The types may be categorized as follows:

Local storage
NTFS (an NTFS volume or a network share that appears on the network as an NTFS volume)
SAN
NAS
CAF (Centera)

The Write Once Read Many (WORM) feature is supported on several devices.

One of the most important factors that will determine the performance of Enterprise Vault is the speed of the storage device.