Enterprise Vault, Centera and Retention Categories
We implemented EV9 a couple years ago, utilized professional services, and took the recommendation of our internal storage team to utilize EMC Centera for our storage needs. Please allow me to bounce a couple thoughts off the big brains who watch this forum. :)
We are running Centera in governance mode. Retention calculations on Centera content rely on ARCHIVE date, not CREATION date.
We use EVPM to EV-enable new Exchange mailboxes; along with that are several subfolders we create in the mailbox that have retention categories assigned to them. Associated with these EV retention categories are Centera retention categories, ranging from one year to seven. I'm hearing conflicting opinions on what occurs to messages in the Vault that are moved around between subfolders with retention categories. One opinion is that this message inherits the current retention; the other (very concerning) opinion is that Centera honors permanently whatever the GREATEST retention value was for the life of the message.
If the latter opinion is true, what about messages that were at any point protected by a litigation hold in Discovery Accelerator? Is the retention value then infinite with no possiblity of delete?
Who's in charge of actions on data within Centera? My understanding is that Centera does not act on anything by itself; instead, it only does exactly what Enterprise Vault tells it to do. I've been told that you cannot access Centera content directly. It requires an application for access.
Hopefully I'm just overcomplicating all of this. I appreciate anyone's comment!
AJ
We met with EMC. Governance mode of a Centera appliance remembers the greates retention value. There's a process where you can run a privileged delete and/or a garbage collection routine, but the original metadata pointer to the binary will always exist until the largest assigned retention value has expired. Go ahead and mark this thread as closed, or resolved, or whatever.
