05-20-2014 08:16 AM
Hi People,
I'd like to know what do I need to keep in the old EV 9 environment to make sure that I can restore the archived item from Exchange email archive and also the FSA archive after I migrated the Exchange 2007 and File Server archive into the new EV 10 environment ?
Old EV 9 environment:
Windows Server 2003 - EV 9 32 bit (Virtual Machine)
Windows Server 2003 - SQL 2005 32 bit (Virtual Machine)
3x Index - NTFS LUNs each 1 TB in size
19x Closed VaultStore Partitions of 0.5 ~ 1.5 TB in sizes - NTFS LUNs
1x Open VaultStore partitions - NTFS LUNs
because I'm currently planning to decommision / separate those old environment above in the production SAN by changing the IP address & VLAN and then importing those LUNS into the changed EV 9 and SQL server VMs in the new / separate VLAN.
New EV 10 environment:
Windows Server 2012 R2 - EV 10.0.4 CHF3 64 bit (Virtual Machine)
Windows Server 2012 R2 - SQL 2012 64 bit (Virtual Machine)
1x Index - NTFS LUN 1.5 TB in size
1x Closed VaultStore Partition of 3 TB in sizes - CIFS share
1x Open VaultStore Partition of 3 TB in sizes - CIFS share
Is that possible ?
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05-21-2014 01:49 AM
Then you need all of this:
Old EV 9 environment:
Windows Server 2003 - EV 9 32 bit (Virtual Machine)
Windows Server 2003 - SQL 2005 32 bit (Virtual Machine)
3x Index - NTFS LUNs each 1 TB in size
19x Closed VaultStore Partitions of 0.5 ~ 1.5 TB in sizes - NTFS LUNs
1x Open VaultStore partitions - NTFS LUNs
When you log on to that EV server, you'll be able to use the Vault Admin console, perform searches, use Archive Explorer etc.. and access all the 'old' archived data.
05-20-2014 08:21 AM
If you're migrating them, and the data in to the new environment, then they'll be accessible -- or should be.
05-20-2014 05:19 PM
Thanks Rob,
So rather than decommisioning the oldEV 9, my plan is to keep the old EV 9 environment and put it into the separate environment.
Does this means that I do not need to provision or create replica of the Exchange Server and the File Server as well ?
05-20-2014 11:12 PM
I don't understand why you're keeping the old EV 9 environment if you're importing the LUNS in to the new environment?
05-21-2014 01:29 AM
Not importing it, my mistake.
I just need some idea of what to keep and what can be changed so that the old EV 9 environment can stand and operates by itself in separate environment so thatI can recall / restore using Archive Explorer from within the VM itself. This is just in case user ask to recover some old items.
05-21-2014 01:49 AM
Then you need all of this:
Old EV 9 environment:
Windows Server 2003 - EV 9 32 bit (Virtual Machine)
Windows Server 2003 - SQL 2005 32 bit (Virtual Machine)
3x Index - NTFS LUNs each 1 TB in size
19x Closed VaultStore Partitions of 0.5 ~ 1.5 TB in sizes - NTFS LUNs
1x Open VaultStore partitions - NTFS LUNs
When you log on to that EV server, you'll be able to use the Vault Admin console, perform searches, use Archive Explorer etc.. and access all the 'old' archived data.
05-21-2014 06:06 AM
Hello John,
I think you need to consider the following:
My suggestion is to once the new EV 10 server is configured and mailboxes are provisioned and synchronized, let the users know that they can still access Archive Explorer and EV search on the old EV 9 server for the archived data and then remove the old EV 9 shortcuts before archiving with the EV 10 server.
I hope this helps.
05-21-2014 06:17 PM
Cool, thanks for the clarification Rob.
So I guess the archived email that is in the EV9 can still be accessible and exported to .PST as well as the archived file from Archive Explorer ?
05-21-2014 06:34 PM
Gabe,
05-21-2014 11:35 PM
yes