Enterprise Vault version for Exchange Server 2013 migration project?

[John_Santana]

Hi All,

I'm in the middle of upgrading our Exchange Server 2007 into 2013 by using staged migration from the existing Exchange Server 2007 mailbox server into the new 2013 mailbox server. So I can migrate users per storage groups in one weekend.

However, what about EV 9.0.4R1 ? does it supports Exchange Server 2013 ?

[GertjanA · Accepted solution]

The compatibility guide is your friend...

Exchange 2013 is supported as of EV10SP3 you will have to upgrade!

[John_Santana]

Gertjan, so in this case the EV must be upgraded first before I upgrade the Exchange Server 2013 ?

At the moment I'm using version 9.0.4

[JesusWept3]

Yup, as Gertjan stated, you're going to have to be on EV10 SP3 per the compatibility guide

[John_Santana]

Thanks for the clarification Jesus,

My EV now is at v9.0.4 while the Exchange Server is on 2007 SP3

at the moment I'm kinda stuck because the EV VaultStore is sitting just 2% free, so with the condition above can I still perform the upgrade from 32 bit EV 9.0.4 into 64 bit v10.0.4 ?

[JesusWept3]

Yeah absolutely you can I would recommend getting more space one way or another though Only more space you would really need would be a conversion of an index from 32bjt to 64bit where it keeps the old index online while the 64 bit one gets built and after it's finished the old one gets deleted But that's indexes, not vault stores, but really you will need extra space in the long run, regardless of what version

[John_Santana]

Cool, no worries Jesus.

My current Index drive is 1 TB with 500 GB free. so it is 50% at least.

[Trafford]

Direct upgrade from 9-32Bit to 10-64bit is not supported.

"EV 9.0 (any version) that is installed on a 32-bit Windows
     Server must be migrated to a 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2
     machine prior to upgrading to EV 10.  For instructions on how
     to migrate Enterprise Vault 9.x to 64-bit hardware, see
     Technical Note TECH141481 in the Related Documents
     section below.   Also, a server settings migration wizard is
     available to migrate EV 9.0 SP1 or SP2 servers to 64-bit
     hardware.  Refer to How To Note HOWTO42445 in the
     Related Documents section below.

See Tech 53174 - "Supported upgrade paths for Enterprise Vault (EV), Compliance Accelerator (CA), Discovery Accelerator (DA) and Discovery Collector (DC)." for full details

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH53174

You will need to Migrate your EV 9 to 64bit environment first, and then upgrade to 10.

Good Luck

[JesusWept3]

Well technically the migration is an upgrade

[JesusWept3 · Accepted solution]

So you have ev10 on your 64bit servers, ev9 on your 32bit servers, the run the migration wizard on the 32bit servers then import it in the 64bit and then let the directory and storage upgrade No need to migrate from v9 to v9 then upgrade, just migrate straight from 9 to 10

[John_Santana]

Trafford, the apologize for the confusion caused :)

the correct term is "transitioning", because there will be EV 9 and EV 10 VM running at the same time.

[John_Santana]

Exactly,

That is what I want to achieve, but in this case I assume that the server disk space and drive mapping must be identical.

Old EV 9:

A:\ Index - 1 TB
B:\ Index - 1 TB
D:\ Index - 1 TB

E:\ VaultStore1 Closed - 1 TB
F:\ VaultStore2 Closed - 1 TB
G:\ VaultStore3 Closed - 1 TB
....

X:\ VaultStore20 Open - 1.26 TB

into the following new server:

New EV 10:

A:\ Index - 1 TB
B:\ Index - 1 TB
D:\ Index - 1 TB

E:\ VaultStore1 Closed - 1 TB
F:\ VaultStore2 Closed - 1 TB
G:\ VaultStore3 Closed - 1 TB
....

X:\ VaultStore20 Open - 1.26 TB

[John_Santana]

It would be ideal if the target server can be as follows:

New EV 10 VM:

A:\ Index - 1 TB
B:\ Index - 1 TB
D:\ Index - 1 TB

\\CIFS\Share1\VaultStoreA Closed - 4 TB (Contains VaultStore1 - 4)

\\CIFS\Share2\VaultStoreB Closed - 4 TB (Contains VaultStore5 - 8)

\\CIFS\Share3\VaultStoreC Closed - 4 TB (Contains VaultStore9 - 12)

....

\\CIFS\Share1\VaultStoreX Open - 4 TB (Contains VaultStore20 - future)

is that above possible during the migration or do I have to do the second stage project to consolidate those VaultStore into the CIFS share ?

[John_Santana]

haha yes, you are right :)

[GertjanA · Accepted solution]

Hello John,

I would pesonally first migrate/upgrade, then when that is ok, consolidate.

[John_Santana]

Cool, many thanks for the suggestion and the clarification.