VIOPS: Proven Practices for Deploying and Managing VMware: Idea for Proven Practice: Symantec ...

12 Replies Last post: Jun 16, 2009 9:35 AM by Tim Harper

Tim Harper

26 posts since
Sep 3, 2008

Sep 10, 2008 9:49 AM

Idea for Proven Practice: Symantec eVault

So we're gearing up to implement Symantec's eVault solution. It is supposed to be coming online sometime before the end of the year. We currently have our Exchange 2003 running on our VI, so that is where our eVault is going to run as well. Once we have out MASSES of email archived, we are planning for the Exchange 2007 upgrade, also on our VI. I can create proven practices for these both, if there is enough interest, as we are implementing them. Thoughts?

Thanks,

Tim

Tags: symantec, exchange_2007, email, archiving, evault, exchange_2003

Steve Chambers

213 posts since
May 31, 2008

1. Sep 10, 2008 12:50 PM

in response to: Tim Harper

Re: Idea for Proven Practice: Symantec eVault

It gets my vote! I would also be interested in seeing what you did to run Exchange on VI... my experience is that you don't have to do anything special, but having someone like you post the fact that you did it, and you followed the standard installation steps, perhaps backed up by some data like # mailboxes, # guests / exchange instances, and the VM configs... perhaps even the underlying resource pool / cluster / host / storage / network config - now THAT would be very popular!

Terry McMillan

3 posts since
Jul 29, 2008

2. Sep 11, 2008 7:32 AM

in response to: Tim Harper

Re: Idea for Proven Practice: Symantec eVault

We are in the same boat here. We are installing Evault then once the old mail has been ingested, working on a plan for a migration of Exchange 2003 on physical to Exchange 2007 running virtual. As a matter of fact I just created the VM's for Evault and the SQL sever. Will keep you posted on our efforts. If anyone has any specific questions I will be happy to try to answer them.

Virtualize First! ..... Virtualize the World!

TMac

Tim Harper

26 posts since
Sep 3, 2008

3. Sep 11, 2008 8:05 AM

in response to: Terry McMillan

Re: Idea for Proven Practice: Symantec eVault

TMac...that sounds great!! Would love to chat with you on the phone if I could once we are getting ready to roll with our implementation. I am currently working on a proven practice for virtualizing Exchange 2003. Should be ready next week. They were physical, but hardware failures forced us to P2V them before we were able to do the 2007 upgrade. Keep us posted on how things go!

Steve Chambers

213 posts since
May 31, 2008

4. Sep 11, 2008 8:08 AM

in response to: Tim Harper

Re: Idea for Proven Practice: Symantec eVault

Could Tim be the first community member to provide a proven practice on his own steam... I'm sure I could think of a prize... go Tim!

Frank E. Mbanusi Jr.

1 posts since
Sep 2, 2008

5. Sep 16, 2008 9:47 AM

in response to: Steve Chambers

Re: Idea for Proven Practice: Symantec eVault

I am also interested in seeing how this goes for you too. My team has just implemented eVault with Exchange 2007 users over at JPL/NASA. We battled many issues with configurations and getting it to work for the client's interface. Many Symantec support calls later, we managed to get it working with multiple user experiences spanning from Windows to MAC clients. I can provide some insight into this if needed, but it would be nice to see how it goes for you!

Thanks!

myrandomstuff

1 posts since
Oct 27, 2008

6. Oct 27, 2008 1:25 PM

in response to: Tim Harper

Re: Idea for Proven Practice: Symantec eVault

Can anyone say where this went? We are working on virtualizing Symantec Evault and were concerned with the database and the manager servers

Tim Harper

26 posts since
Sep 3, 2008

7. Nov 3, 2008 12:50 PM

in response to: myrandomstuff

Re: Idea for Proven Practice: Symantec eVault

We almost have our additional SAN hardware in place for this project to kick off. One thing to keep in mind is that we are going completely native VM...no P2V. I will be keeping notes and writing a proven practice paper as we progress.

difenza

8 posts since
Sep 8, 2008

8. Jan 13, 2009 9:01 AM

in response to: Tim Harper

Re: Idea for Proven Practice: Symantec eVault

Hi,

any news?

Tim Harper

26 posts since
Sep 3, 2008

9. Jan 14, 2009 2:18 PM

in response to: difenza

Re: Idea for Proven Practice: Symantec eVault

Hi y'all!! Here's a quick update for where we are with this project.

We are just putting the finishing touches on the pilot right now. We finished the install last week and will have our first archiving run tomorrow with our pilot group. If all goes well, we will start pushing out one group at a time through the enterprise. I'm documenting our steps as we go through this for our PP document. I'm hoping to have the Proven Practice written up and posted early February.

Cheers!

Tim

Tim Harper

26 posts since
Sep 3, 2008

10. Jun 3, 2009 11:08 AM

in response to: Tim Harper

Re: Idea for Proven Practice: Symantec eVault

How's everyone doing? Well I am about half way done with the PP document on this. Should have it posted up by the end of the week.

Bob Stephens

9 posts since
May 31, 2008

11. Jun 11, 2009 9:55 AM

in response to: Tim Harper

Re: Idea for Proven Practice: Symantec eVault

Hey Tim, we're all getting antsy, how's the PP coming?

Tim Harper

26 posts since
Sep 3, 2008

12. Jun 16, 2009 9:35 AM

in response to: Tim Harper

Re: Idea for Proven Practice: Symantec eVault

Submitted for approval!! I liked building the anticipation, lol.

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