Moving EV Index locations

[KeirL]

Hi

Firstly let me say this is a requirement for a test\dev environment so not for production use..... but I want to change the Index location from a local disk to a CIFs Share.

The EV Indexes will not in fact be copied anywhere as the CIF's share I want to create will be a share from the server that currently hosts the indexes on it's local disk. EV 'Server A' needs to be removed from the EV site and currently hosts a Vault Store and EV Index from Exchange journal mailbox archiving from a test exchange server. I want to decommision the EV server and so need to change the Vault Store, Partitions and EV Indexes to be managed by one of the other EV servers. 'Server A' itself will not be turned off but I just want to remove EV and so had the idea of leaving the data in place and just configuring the locations as Network shares for the other EV server (Server B). I know this is ok for Vault stores but wanted to check the Indexes can be re-assigned in the same way. I understand that shares for Indexes isn't good in production solutions (this is just a dev environment) but wanted to check, at a technical level, if I can 'move' the EV indexes to a cifs share and update SQL to allow Server B to hos these Indexes vis a CIFs Share. The Technote on moving EV Indexes always talks about copying the indexes to the new location even if it's a UNC path.....

kind regards

Keir

[Tonaco_pt]

Hi KeirL

As removing EV of the serve check this post:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH135322 ou https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/how-remove-ev-server-your-site

As moving index location I just did that (5000 archive), and I used this article for guide http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO82325, feel free to check my post or to ask any question https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-move-index-new-server-bulk

[KeirL]

Thanks, but that's not actually what I'm asking, however, it does highlight my question perhaps a bit better.

All the technotes and posts about moving indexes from one server to another state

"Copy the contents of the index location from the old location to the new root path location"   or

"If the index storage cannot be moved, such as index locations targeted via UNC path, then copy the contents of the index location from the old index server to an existing index location on the new index server."

For me, I don't want to copy the EV Indexes anywhere I just want to change from a local disk on the old EV server (eg G:\) to a CIFs share (of the local disk of the same old EV server) eg share the G:\ out over the Network

Do I still follow the same process but update SQL to something like \\oldEVserver\<IndexShareName> ?

many thanks

[TonySterling · Accepted solution]

Yes, that would be how you would do it.  Share out the folder and then update the path in SQL.

[AndrewB]

For what it's worth, it's generally not recommended to store your indexes on a CIFS share. Since you're working in test/dev you can get away with it.

[John_Huber]

 We currently run EV virtualized on a Netapp host and our indexes on a Cifs share on the same Netapp and have not had a problem. We are a small shop and do not really put a lot of load on the box.  I would think in a Dev environment it should not be a problem.