05-27-2012 03:43 PM
Hi People,
My current EV server 8.0 SP4 is seems to running out of drive space with just drive A: and B: available, the rest is consumed / used by the Indexer Volume and also Vault drives. I do archiving for both my Email Server and File Servers (multiple), so I wonder if the indexer and vault drives are full, what is the best practice to do to keep EV running smoothly ?
Thanks in advance.
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05-28-2012 07:10 PM
it's not really much different from mounting a drive with a letter. in the event of an OS failure you would need to remap those as well. especially for larger environments, i like having a consistant naming convention all the way across (ev, vault store, partition, os, server, lun, volume, etc) so you can know exactly where everything belongs no matter where along the chain you look.
05-27-2012 06:57 PM
Well, you can either make the current drives bigger or you can start using mount points - mount new drives as folders under a drive letter.
05-28-2012 01:12 AM
There are a lot of possibilities...
Tell us more about your (storage) environment. Are those USB disks you mount on? Is it a SAN? Direct attached disks? What are your available options to increase storage?
Cheers
05-28-2012 09:02 AM
i would lean towards using mount points as john mentioned.
05-28-2012 04:21 PM
Hi Andrew,
Using mount points, sounds like a dangerous implementation to me ? so in the event of the OS failure, how can I re-attach the drive while expecting the mount point still there ?
I'm sorry in advance since I have never applied or implement mount point at all.
05-28-2012 04:25 PM
Hi MichelZ,
Are those USB disks you mount on? No
Is it a SAN? Yes
Direct attached disks? yes it is Physical RDM attach / presenting the SAN LUN directly to the OS
What are your available options to increase storage? at the moment I'm unable to increase the LUN for the EV disks due to the not enough space in the RAID group, therefore I will need to recreate bigger RAID group and then migrate it over. In short answer isnot enough free space in the RAID group to grow the existing LUN.
05-28-2012 07:10 PM
it's not really much different from mounting a drive with a letter. in the event of an OS failure you would need to remap those as well. especially for larger environments, i like having a consistant naming convention all the way across (ev, vault store, partition, os, server, lun, volume, etc) so you can know exactly where everything belongs no matter where along the chain you look.
06-01-2012 07:35 PM
Thanks Andrew !
I assume performance wise also not going to be affected.
06-01-2012 08:55 PM
correct assumption dushan. this is a common practice that is used in many large environments.