This blog post is a question to other legal IT teams, especially those that support Autonomy iManage’s WorkSite product. The question came to me after I re-read the post by @jbtrexler on the excellent blog electronic file 2.0.
It’s about storage underneath WorkSite and a realisation that after six years of supporting the product I’ve never really needed to get to grips with the underlying file management of the product.
The question though is simple. For a single WorkSite library or database, can I have the physical documents stored across numerous shares? So for my Matters library could I have the documents stored on a matters1 share on say one array of disks and a matters2 on another?
At some point I’ve been led to believe not, but am I wrong?
Yes, you definitely can have them across multiple shares. Just create another file server, set it as default for some/all of the user accounts.
Short answer is definitely. Per jB Trexler’s post we deploy multiple shares as our best practice. Your storage guys will thank you. DM or email me for scripts to make it easier
Yes it is possible. We have multiple libraries spread across multiple fileshares. It was out of necessity rather than design though as the first fileshare grew too large (2TB). This also allowed us to move the data to slower disk as fast (fibre channel) was not required for the raw storage of the files. In reality, the rate of change is minimum also.