Ev Sites within One Ev Organization

[Judy_Glazier]

If you have an Enterprise Vault Environment setup with EV 8.0 SP4 on Windows 2003 SP2 servers, can you add a Windows 2008 x64 server and create a new EV site for another domain within this EV organization?

My answer would be no.  Please confirm it is not possible.

Judy

[GertjanA · Accepted solution]

Hi Judy,

A new site indicates a new directory database.
If you have a seperate sql-server or instance for this new site, why not?

As a matter of fact, we're running 1 site on w2003sp2, sql2005sp3, and have installed a proof of concept site on w2008r2x64, sql2008r2x64. two different sites, same (windows) domain, 2 sql servers, 2 directory databases. Very nice to test intersite move-archive functionality ;)

[Judy_Glazier]

Thanks for your quick response Gertjan

We would be adding the EV Site with a different Windows domain.  That will be a really good test for moving an archive between different EV sites.  Documentation says a two-way trust is required to move an archive across two active directory domains, so I have to assume that this kind of move is possible.

Judy

[JesusWept3]

Actually you can have multiple sites in one EnterpriseVaultDirectory database
in fact theres actually a bug that was submitted not so long ago regarding the Default Retention categories etc being set for the wrong site

[Rob_Wilcox1]

JW2 is right on both counts.  You can have two sites in one EV "organisation" (to coin a Microsoft Exchange term)