Update pea files on Enterprise Vault server to point to old and new Centera arrays

[reachmitra]

Hi ,

We are updating pea files on Enterprise Vault server to point to old and new Centera arrays.

Just want to validate the below steps

Technical Steps:
A.      Stop all of the EV journal tasks and place system in Read-Only mode
B.      Wait for anything pending to completely archive to Centeras.( Question: - Do we have to check MSMQ storage archive queue to confirm ?
C.      Update PEA files
D.      Start EV tasks and archiving should still write to existing partitions on the old Centeras

Can you comment? Need more insight in step B.

[JesusWept3 · Accepted solution]

Sounds like overkill to me, there's no reason to have to make sure the queues are completely empty, just update the pea and restart the EV admin service and that should be it

[reachmitra]

Thanks JesusWept3.

We got the above steps from storage vendor,

Is there any need to put EV in back up mode and stop the journal tasks before updating PEA file?

Appreciate your comment on this

[TonySterling]

That is up to you, it won't hurt anything if you do/don't