Consolidating EV Servers

[Giacomo]

I have multiple (5) EV Servers that have old mailbox archive and journal archive content .  I would like to consolidate them to a single server or two.  What is a practical way to accomplish this?  This would be roughly 20 TB of data that is at least 4 years old.

Thanks for any help provided.

Giacomo

[TonySterling]

If you are happy to keep all the vault stores then you can move the entire vault stores and indexes:

How to move a Vault Store and Vault Store partition to a different Enterprise Vault (EV) server in the SAME site.

Article:TECH47388

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Created: 2010-01-30

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Updated: 2014-10-30

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Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH47388

How to move the Index location to a different Enterprise Vault (EV) server in the same site.

Article:TECH51450

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Created: 2007-01-22

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Updated: 2014-12-31

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Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH51450

Othewise, you could use a tool like Archive Shuttle to migrate the archives from one vault store to another.

Move Archive might be an option but I wouldn't recommend for a project of this size.

[JesusWept3 · Accepted solution]

the method we used was copy the indexes and vault stores across to unique directories and then changed DNS and ran USL So for the indexes we did like I:\evserver1\indexes I:\evserver2\indexes I:\evserver3\indexes Then updated the IndexRootPath columns accordingly Then we did similar with the vault stores and updated the PartitionEntry tables Afterwards, simply updated DNS so that all the evserver aliases pointed to server1 So like evserver1 -> server1.mydomain.com evserver2 -> server1.mydomain.com evserver3 -> server1.mydomain.com Then afterwards ran USL and all done