First time upgrading - checking my steps
Hi All Looking to do my first EV upgrade, normally this has been actioned by another colleague who has since retired. Currently we're on EV 12.1.2 and looking to go to 12.5.3. Our environment is: 4x Win2012 servers (2 x storage/task servers and 2 x indexing servers), SQL 2012 server, Storage is handled by CIF shares. We're currently running onprem Exchange 2016 servers. We don't use EV reporting, discovery or any smtp/journal archiving Pre-change: Confirm backups of application servers and SQL Confirm AV off Confirm disk space Run deployment scanner check Get new clients packaged ready to deploy Change Day: Stop all EV services and set to manual Check all MSMQ are empty Copy and backup EV folder for webapp.ini and web.config files Upgrade all 4 servers but DO NOT reboot until all are done Run cmdlet Start-EVDatabaseUpgrade to upgrade SQL db 12.5.3 install on all 4 servers a) have I got the above steps correct? b) my previous colleague would also put the Vault Stores in Backup mode, is this necessary since I'm stopping the EV services and changing them to Manual startup for the duration? c) he also noted something about Check Statistics have been dropped on Vault SQL Databases, what is this? d) Do I need to upgrade OWA extensions on each Exchange server as well? e) the client app deployment is handled by another team, does it matter if the server is 12.5.3 but the client is 12.1.2 for a short duration? f) any other step I'm missing? Thanks in advance.
Move archive in different EV directory?
Hi, i have a EV 9.02 enviroment with 100 users and 400 GB data in Physical HW (this physical HW will be shutdown after this process) i have to migrate existing old EV environemnt to new virtual 2012 environment.I will install EV 11.01 latest version(without HW migration process) what is your advice for move archive feauture for carrying old archived data to new EV server? my new server ready to installation.but if i install new binary with new directory name and new site name ; then i have 2 different EV server witin same domain.i can move archives old EV server archives to new one? or what is your other suggestions? -installing under same directory ; can couse problems when deleting old Ev server? - 2 different directory and 2 different site name is better ?then move archive for 80-90 user (i know that move archive works slowly..) can i work with 2 different EV server within same domain? i can see other ev server name in mpvearchive wizard easly?(no need to trust because they are in same domain) thanks...
access enterprise vault 12 media for upgrade
Hi all I've got just a couple of EV installs so I attend to this not too often. But now I need to upgrade one of the installations to version 12. But is there anyway to download version 12 - we have maintenance. Or do I have to request media from sales/support?
Enterprise Vault 12.2.1 released.
All, EV 12.2.1 has been released and can be found here - https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000127352 This has many fixes including one for File Server Archiving where file server shares would become inaccessible for a period of time during large file recalls. This was due to an SMB thread issue that has been resolved. Regards, Patrick
Enterprise Vault 10.0.4 to Enterprise Vault 12.1.3 Migration
Dear Experts, I need your suggestion regarding the migration process for EV 10.0.4 to EV 12.1.3 which is running on VCS 6.0 Current setup: 6 Node VCS cluster running in single cluster and in which two nodes hosting EV mailbox archiving, two nodes Journal Archive and two nodes FSA archiving. Also we have single DA Server We are planning to migrate to 12.1.3 and we have planned as below. You suggestions will be highly appreicated. Step 1: Migrate EV Databas, the MS SQL 2008 to MS SQL 2012 (failover cluster) as well DA Database Step 2: Upgrade existing DA 10.0.4 Server to 11.0.1 and then Upgrade all EV Servers to 11.0.1 Step 3: Setup new 6 nodes VCS 7.2 cluster. Two node each for MBX archiving, Journal Archive and FSA Archive Step 4: Install EV 12.0 on all cluster Nodes (no configuration) & Configure disk Group for MSMQ & RegReplication Step 5: Export Configuration from Old EV Servers (Need a clarification here. Whether we need to Export Configuration for each MBX, Jounral and FAS archive cluster or exporting for all nodes at a time should suffice. MBX cluster resource group has its own disk and other resources, so does the Journal Archive cluster and FSA archiving) Step 5: Install DA nodes 12.0 standalone & upgrade the configurations Step 6: deport disks and import disks in new cluster nodes Step 7: Configure VCS EV resource configuration Wizard Step 8: Configure EV VCS Configuration Wizard Step 9: Import EV Configuration (Again the same question. Do we need to import configuration for each cluster separately or we can do it in one go) Step 10: Bring the cluster services up for EV and test archive, retreive and search. Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Rgds, Rane