Creating vault store groups

Vault stores are grouped within vault store groups. If you use Enterprise Vault single instance storage, a vault store group forms an outer boundary for the sharing of SIS parts.

Before you start creating vault store groups and vault stores, consider what sort of sharing regime is compatible with your organization's structure and network connection speeds.

See Developing a suitable sharing regime for Enterprise Vault single instance storage.

You can create a vault store group using the New Vault Store Group wizard, as follows.

To create a vault store group

  1. In the left pane of the Administration Console, expand the Enterprise Vault site hierarchy until Vault Store Groups is visible.

  2. Right-click Vault Store Groups and then click New > Vault Store Group.

    The New Vault Store Group wizard starts.

  3. Work through the wizard. You need to provide the following information:

    • A name for the Vault Store Group.

    • The SQL server that is to host and manage the group's fingerprint database.

    • The locations for the fingerprint database's SQL filegroups.

    The New Vault Store Group wizard provides the following options for configuring the filegroups:

    • A basic configuration, where Enterprise Vault locates the primary filegroup and all the non-primary filegroups on one device.

    • An option to configure additional locations for the 32 non-primary filegroups. The non-primary filegroups can grow rapidly in size when you use single instance storage. For best performance, spread the non-primary filegroups across multiple locations.

    For optimal performance do as follows:

    • Select the option Configure additional locations for non-primary filegroups.

    • Specify as many locations as possible for the non-primary filegroups on the SQL Server, up to the maximum of 32.

    • Specify a separate device for each location. If you specify more than one location on the same device there is no performance benefit.

    Note:

    To add or change locations after the fingerprint database is configured is a SQL Server administration task. See your Microsoft SQL Server documentation for details.

When the vault store group has been created, the New Vault Store wizard takes you through the steps to create a vault store.

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