What is the difference between master vault, replica vault and cache vault?

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March 1, 2017
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Hello,

I am a new user of Windchill PDMLink. I am exploring the file vault topic and have read some User Guides,

1. I read the concepts master vaults , replica vault and cache vaults but in that I am getting confused in the difference

2. So, I am not getting that, when to use master vault, when to use replica and when to use cache vault.

Could anyone guide me further on this

Thank You in advance.

Sumit Patil

BOM_Platform Mgmt

Best answer by BenLoosli

Master Vault is where ALL of your files are stored.

Replica Vault is used at a remote site to maintain local copies of the files from the Master Vault. You need a remote file server for a replica vault. There are rules that can be established as to retrieval and saving locations for the remote workers. You can also control the replication/sync timing.

Cache Vault is the temporary server storage location files when you save. The files are saved to the Cache Vault, then moved/copied to the final master vault folder.

Master Vaults must be established, created, mounted and verified to Windchill, They have a corresponding physical disk location on your system. Could be a local disk or a NAS.

Replica Vaults are only needed if you have remote locations and you have a latency issue. Some companies have remote locations and do not use replica vaults. I have local users (in the same building) and remote users (7 miles away) and I do not use a replica server as we have good fiber optic lines between the sites.

Cache Vault is established OOTB by Windchill. You can move it if you need to.

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BenLoosli

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Master Vault is where ALL of your files are stored.

Replica Vault is used at a remote site to maintain local copies of the files from the Master Vault. You need a remote file server for a replica vault. There are rules that can be established as to retrieval and saving locations for the remote workers. You can also control the replication/sync timing.

Cache Vault is the temporary server storage location files when you save. The files are saved to the Cache Vault, then moved/copied to the final master vault folder.

Master Vaults must be established, created, mounted and verified to Windchill, They have a corresponding physical disk location on your system. Could be a local disk or a NAS.

Replica Vaults are only needed if you have remote locations and you have a latency issue. Some companies have remote locations and do not use replica vaults. I have local users (in the same building) and remote users (7 miles away) and I do not use a replica server as we have good fiber optic lines between the sites.

Cache Vault is established OOTB by Windchill. You can move it if you need to.

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spatil-10-11-121

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Hi Ben,

Thank you for your response.

Now I got an idea what exactly it is. I want to ask you one more question, if you could tell me, it would be helpful to me,

1. I have created a vault in a master vault other than "defaultsystemvault", mounted it, created folder for it. and set its as a "Default target" and also validated it.

2. Now, I created one document from windchill UI, when I I attached one file with that document object, that file is storing in a "defaultuploadvault" instead of the vault I configured.

3. So, Please can you tell me why is it happening, and where am I doing wrong?

Thank you in advance.

Sumit Patil