Upgrade EV. from 2007 to 8.0.3

[Amin123]

Hi,
I am going to upgrade Enterprise Vault from 2007 to 8.0.3.

1. Just checking if this can directly be upgraded and
2. Is there any cautions or specific changes and issues been noticed.
3. Is there a document for this specific upgrade?
4. Also do I need to upgrade all clients software, this is huge setup.
5. What other part I need to check

Thanks,

 

 

[RahulG · Accepted solution]

1. If you are not using CA &  DA you can upgrade direclty
2. Make sure you backup every thing before proceeding with the upgrade when you upgrade to Enterprise Vault 8.0, Enterprise Vault does the following for each Enterprise Vault site:

• It creates a vault store group named the Default Upgrade Group, without a fingerprint database.

• It places the site's existing vault stores into the Default Upgrade Group.
  It sets the sharing level of each existing vault store to "No sharing".
   

  If you add a vault store to the Default Upgrade Group, Enterprise Vault sets its sharing level to "No sharing", unless you configure sharing for the group.

  Note that Enterprise Vault does not use single instance storage in the Default Upgrade Group unless you configure sharing for that group. No sharing occurs even if your vault stores were configured to use single instance storage before the upgrade.

  Before you configure sharing for the Default Upgrade Group, consider what sort of sharing regime you require. You can move a vault store to a different vault store group only if the vault store has not participated in Enterprise Vault 8.0 single instance storage sharing.

  To configure sharing in the Default Upgrade Group, run the Configure Sharing wizard. The wizard prompts you to create a fingerprint database for the group before you configure the sharing levels.

3. You can refer the install and config guide refer the following http://support.veritas.com/docs/320938

4. The old client does work with the new version but in case if have any issue would recommend to update the client

5. Contact professional services as they can help you with the upgrade if you not familar to the product .

[GertjanA]

Hi Amin,

check this post for a sheet that helps in the process :

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/upgrading-ev-75-80-sp4

This guide describes how to upgrade to Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP4 from Enterprise Vault 8.0 or from any version of Enterprise Vault 2007.
The only possible server upgrade paths to Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP4 are from Enterprise Vault 8.0, 8.0 SP1, 8.0 SP2, 8.0 SP3, or Enterprise Vault 2007.If your Enterprise Vault servers are running a version of Enterprise Vault that is older than Enterprise Vault 2007, you must first upgrade to Enterprise Vault 2007 and then upgrade to Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP4.

To use the new features in EV8, you will need to upgrade the clients too. You can do this before or after the upgrade of the servers. I prefer to do a client upgrade first, but that is up to you, it does not really matter. Check the documents, and you'll find the things you need to take into account.