Maximum Vault Cache size for virtual vault users!

[s1satya]

Hello,

I am testing virtual vault with my test users.

It is rolled out successfully so far with the testers, but according to the default setting on the virtual vault desktop policy. The cache size on the users workstation has went upto 5 - 6GB depending upon the free space on the users computer of which it uses 10% (I hope i get it right)

Now i want to limit the max cache size for the user to 2GB

- I have modified the vault cache desktop policy to restrict cache size to 2GB
- Re-ran provisioning task and synchronized the test mailboxes

But it doesn't seems to be taking effect.

I have been reading on some other forums and it appears to be that its the initial setting that is taken into consideration no matter if you change the policy later it still keep the initial value.

Please suggest........!!!!

[MichelZ · Accepted solution]

This is correct, the value will not change on existing Vault Cache's.

You can try to set it on the client's registry: (from the Registry_Values.pdf/chm document)
(you should be able to place it in the "Client" key, and I believe it replicates it into the random VaultCacheStoreID key)

KEY: OVStoreSize
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\KVS\Enterprise Vault\Client\VaultCacheStoreID
DWORD

The minimum value is 1 (GB), and the maximum value is 999 (GB).
The maximumsize, in gigabytes, that Vault Cache is allowed to occupy.
If the Vault Cache reaches this size, the oldest items are automatically deleted in order to make room for new items.

If neither OVStoreSize nor OVStoreSizePercent is specified a default value of 10% of disk capacity is used.

The space is not allocated until it is needed.


KEY: OVStoreSizePercent
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\KVS\Enterprise Vault\Client\VaultCacheStoreID
DWORD

Percentage of disk capacity to use.
If neither OVStoreSize nor OVStoreSizePercent is specified a default value of 10% of disk capacity is used.

[s1satya]

I am going to try below steps and see if that helps me achieve my goal

- Modify Virtual vault desktop policy to allow 2GB of cache size
- Reset vault cache on a user machine

I am quite confident that this should pull the new values from the server and update client accordingly.

Just trying to avoide registry changes as it will not be a option for me to do in production ;)

[s1satya]

So i just did a reset of vault cache on some system and it picked new setting as per virtual vault policy on the server.

Since we dont have it rolled out yet to all users in production i am OK

But what if we run into such situation in a live running environment with all users enabled with vault cache and policy needs to be altered?