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Migrate from EMC SourceOne to Veritas EV

Marianne
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Does anyone have any experience with migration of SourceOne Exchange archiving to EV?

We have a customer who want to replace SourceOne with EV.

My understanding is that they have 2 options:

  1. Export all SourceOne archives to PST, followed by import of PSTs into Enterprise Vault. 
    This option will require Customer resources to export existing archives. 
    Our resources will then assist Customer resources with import of a number of named exported PSTs  (suggestion: 10 PSTs), after which the customer resources can import the rest of exported PSTs.
  2. Customer (or us as the EV partner) can use recognised third-party software (for example TransVault Migrator ) to perform non-disruptive migration from EMC SourceOne to Veritas Enterprise Vault.

Does anyone have experience with Transvault?

Any other options to migrate to EV?

 

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GertjanA
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Hello Marianne,

I have done a migration from EMC to EV a few years ago. this was a painfull operation, due to how EMC stores the archived data. It involved a lot of manual intervention and assistance from TransVault to get everyhting migrated eventuelly.

The answer to your question is not simple, but a good starting point is the datasize that needs to be migrated. If there are many, large archives on EMC, you might be better off using TransVault (or perhaps Quadrotechs Archive Shuttle). If it is not too large, it might be easier to export the EMC to PST's, and import those into EV.

Importing the PST's into EV is relatively simple, but there is obviously room for errors (PST imported into wrong archive for example). Also make sure the PST's are limited to 2GB, as that seems to be the best size for importing PST's.

Regards. Gertjan

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AndrewB
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marianne, it's important to understand if they have journal data in S1 because an export to PST will result in data loss. in that case it will be crucial to use a migration tool like TransVault which knows how to reconstruct the journal envelope data and feed it to EV via the API.

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GertjanA
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Hello Marianne,

I have done a migration from EMC to EV a few years ago. this was a painfull operation, due to how EMC stores the archived data. It involved a lot of manual intervention and assistance from TransVault to get everyhting migrated eventuelly.

The answer to your question is not simple, but a good starting point is the datasize that needs to be migrated. If there are many, large archives on EMC, you might be better off using TransVault (or perhaps Quadrotechs Archive Shuttle). If it is not too large, it might be easier to export the EMC to PST's, and import those into EV.

Importing the PST's into EV is relatively simple, but there is obviously room for errors (PST imported into wrong archive for example). Also make sure the PST's are limited to 2GB, as that seems to be the best size for importing PST's.

Regards. Gertjan

Marianne
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Thanks Gertjan!

We will try to get all relevant info from the customer and then approach a couple of migration companies for quotations.

AndrewB
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marianne, it's important to understand if they have journal data in S1 because an export to PST will result in data loss. in that case it will be crucial to use a migration tool like TransVault which knows how to reconstruct the journal envelope data and feed it to EV via the API.

Marianne
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Thanks Andrew! Awesome info... will add this to list of questions.