[jjbeeuk]

Hi,

Has anyone installed SQL Express 2008 R2 when using Symantec Enterprise Vault to save on costs.

I have done this in a test environment and everything seems to work fine but express is listed as N when you check the compatibility guide.

Not getting many answers when querying Symantec themselves and wondered what anyone else's thoughts were?

Obviously there is a 10GB DB limit when considering this and at the moment we have no idea how big the DB will grow to be honest.

Any experience and comments welcome.

Cheers

[Ossian]

Since EV is an enterprise solution for archiving email, documents and other content, I suspect 10Gb is a drop in the ocean (even with de-duplication). Look at your current email and file stores to give you an idea of the sort of sizes you are looking at.

Given the price of EV, isn't saving $1800 ish for SQL Standard a bit like cutting off your own nose to spite your face?