Using Data Domain Storage with Symantec Enterprise Vault 8
This white paper covers the implementation and advantages of using Data Domain as a target storage platform for Symantec Enterprise Vault.
Authored by-
Michael McLaughlin – Data Domain – Technical Marketing
Charles Arconi – Cornerstone Technologies - Principal Consultant
NOTE: Originally written using the Enterprise Vault 8.0 platform the document is equally relevant to Enterprise Vault 9.0 as the underlying deduplication technology, storage engines and framework are the same.
Excerpts from White Paper:
"In today’s data centers, information and data growth in almost all areas is never ending. One very effective way of dealing with the management and protection of increasing data sets is through the addition of archiving extensions to the existing environment. Symantec™ Enterprise Vault™ is one of the leading archive applications for Microsoft® Exchange® and Microsoft SharePoint®, Windows file servers, and Lotus Domino and Notes®.
When managing these applications, the storage choices for primary application data, archive data, and backup data sets present many options for today’s IT administrators. This white paper covers the use of the Data Domain deduplication storage solution as a target for Symantec Enterprise Vault 8 (EV8) archiving solutions. Specific testing was performed for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft file servers. Similar testing was not performed for Microsoft SharePoint or Lotus Domino and Notes. It is not the intent of this paper to exhaustively cover all possible archiving and storage use cases, configurations, or scenarios. The goal of this paper is to examine the specific use and benefits of Data Domain storage with Enterprise Vault 8 with Exchange and File Server Archiving (FSA). Best practices and configuration guidelines will also be covered where they affect the overall solution.
This paper is intended for solution architects and storage administrators involved in the planning and deployment of Symantec Enterprise Vault archive solutions that will be based on Data Domain storage. Some knowledge regarding storage administration, the Symantec Enterprise Vault archiving software, and Data Domain systems is assumed."
"Recommendations
- When planning EV8 server requirements, use Data Domain storage instead of the local disk to remove the deduplication processing burden on Enterprise Vault servers.
- Enable the Data Domain vault store partition options to indicate that the device has deduplication and compression capabilities.
- If only email archiving is planned, size the Exchange archive storage requirements as you would for using a local disk. The deduplication results from Data Domain will be similar to those archived by native Enterprise Vault levels. Note that the initial data set presented (pre-deduplication) will appear larger on the Data Domain systems but the end result of actual storage used should be similar to that of EV8.
- Use the Data Domain storage for backup of the Exchange environment as normal. There are no combined storage efficiency effects of backup and archive for Exchange.
- If only file server archiving is planned, size the FSA archives as you would for a single first instance full backup of the source file server.."
