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LeeO's avatar
LeeO
Level 3
9 years ago

Enterprise Vault limits

Hi

We have an especially large Enterprise Vault installation, been running for 3 years as it is now.  (currently 10.0.4).

Apart from physical limitations of running out of disk, are there any limits that we might see, for example SQL rows, or maximum number of items indexed/archived etc..

i.e. will EV just stop working one day, or will it keep growing? (as long as we chuck disk at it)

Cheers

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  • GertjanA's avatar
    GertjanA
    9 years ago

    Reasonably large :-)

    As for the Vault Store items in a database, I believe the value 350.000.000 should be a parameter to create another store.

    One thing to keep in mind is to make sure your maintenance on SQL is being performed regularly.

    Keeping the databases healthy will assist in performance.

    Are you by any chance doing deletions (archives and/or Storage Expiry)? If so, you also migh want to as Michel states, do some distributing between stores, to keep the balance more or less equal.

    It also depends on what underlying storage you have etc, but if it runs good, there should not be a reason for it to 'suddenly' stop. You might want to check with Veritas on their recommendations to be sure.

    Greetz,

     

    GJ

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  • RahulG's avatar
    RahulG
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    If there is any limitation from SQL side w.r.t to number or items , tables row. etc, so this will limit EV. EV as such is scalable enough .

    Refer .  It supplements Microsoft best practice advice for sizing, tuning, and maintaining SQL Servers.

  • MichelZ's avatar
    MichelZ
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    Hi

    Please define "especially large", what is large for some is just tiny for others :)

    EV will happily keep growing. What you should try to do is distribute the load to multiple Vault Stores, I think the recommendation is still to have <100 mio Items per Vault Store.

    Apart from that, if you can keep up with CPU/Memory/Disk, EV should definitely not "stop working"

     

    Cheers

  • LeeO's avatar
    LeeO
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    Hi

    We have 6 Exchange Mailbox Archiving servers 140,000 mailboxes being archived,  around 995 Million items archived, 278 Terrabytes of archives.. 

    4 Journal archive server running 24x7 archiving around 1.5 million emails a day.

    Cheers

  • MichelZ's avatar
    MichelZ
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    OK, that does count as large :)

    But yeah, if you take above comment into consideration, you should be fine.

  • GertjanA's avatar
    GertjanA
    Moderator
    9 years ago

    Reasonably large :-)

    As for the Vault Store items in a database, I believe the value 350.000.000 should be a parameter to create another store.

    One thing to keep in mind is to make sure your maintenance on SQL is being performed regularly.

    Keeping the databases healthy will assist in performance.

    Are you by any chance doing deletions (archives and/or Storage Expiry)? If so, you also migh want to as Michel states, do some distributing between stores, to keep the balance more or less equal.

    It also depends on what underlying storage you have etc, but if it runs good, there should not be a reason for it to 'suddenly' stop. You might want to check with Veritas on their recommendations to be sure.

    Greetz,

     

    GJ

  • LeeO's avatar
    LeeO
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    GertjanA - Yes we have 7 Vault Stores each with 5 partitions, on each server,  and no,  we don't do any deletions at all.  SQL Maintenance is run methodically every night, and we are well within the 350M per store,  we have Tier 1A FC SAN so it's all nice and quick.

    Sounds like we should be ok for a while then, thanks for your input everyone :)

     

     

  • LeeO's avatar
    LeeO
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    Hi Andrew,

    We do daily full backups of open partitions (partitions are a maximum of 500GB)  - once closed,  we do a final backup, and then never back it up again.

  • AndrewB's avatar
    AndrewB
    Moderator
    9 years ago

    What about collections (aka CAB files.) Do you have collections turned on?

    Also, you must have an insaine amount of Indexes for such a large archive. How are you backing them up?

  • LeeO's avatar
    LeeO
    Level 3
    9 years ago

    Yep,  we do collections...   25MB collections, older than 30 days...   indexes are just backed up daily full too...

    We have the standard 8 indexes per server... and they take maybe 4 hours a night to do a full back up (all 8 indexes per server)