Forum Discussion

Ampersound's avatar
Ampersound
Level 3
5 years ago

EV11 server Decom - Vault Store Sharing question

Morning. I've been tasked with decommissioning an Win2k8 EV server that was used for FSA from our environment (remaining 15 EV servers are Win2012 - 12 used for Exchange and 3 other FSAs).  We do not...
  • plaudone1's avatar
    plaudone1
    5 years ago

    Hi Ampersound,

    If there is sharing in the group then the potential is there for items in the FSA store to be shared to the items in the other store(s).  You could find the VaultStoreIdentity of the FSA vault store from the EnterpriseVaultDirectory > VaultStoreEntry table and then perform a search in the SISPart table of the other vault store using that identity. 

    Select Count(*) From SISPart Where VaultStoreIdentity = # 

    That will tell you how many shared items are seen in the FSA store from that specific store.  Those items would not be retreiveable if you were to decommission the entire server, vault store, partition...

    You could remove all of the archive from the FSA vault store to reduce overhead and the remaining items would be the ones shared.  Then you could move the partition to another server, if it is a type that can be moved, to allow access to those items. 

    Regards,

    Patrick 

plaudone1's avatar
plaudone1
Level 6

Hi Ampersound,

If there is sharing in the group then the potential is there for items in the FSA store to be shared to the items in the other store(s).  You could find the VaultStoreIdentity of the FSA vault store from the EnterpriseVaultDirectory > VaultStoreEntry table and then perform a search in the SISPart table of the other vault store using that identity. 

Select Count(*) From SISPart Where VaultStoreIdentity = # 

That will tell you how many shared items are seen in the FSA store from that specific store.  Those items would not be retreiveable if you were to decommission the entire server, vault store, partition...

You could remove all of the archive from the FSA vault store to reduce overhead and the remaining items would be the ones shared.  Then you could move the partition to another server, if it is a type that can be moved, to allow access to those items. 

Regards,

Patrick 

Ampersound's avatar
Ampersound
Level 3
5 years ago

Thanks very much for the help.

I'll take a look and see whats left after the old FSA archives are gone.

Regards,

Andy