Elastic Storage - General Information

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General Information

Elastic Storage is a shared file storage service available to MSU units.

You can use it for general file sharing, such as creating personal (U:) drives and shared (S:) drives for your staff.

• Cost: $45 per year per 1 TiB (includes backup snapshots)
• Minimum purchase: 1 TiB
• Contact: IT Service Desk — (517) 432-6200 or visit the Client Portal – Live Support Options

MSU’s AD Governance Committee sets policies and best practices for Active Directory, Office 365, and Elastic to ensure long-term stability.

Department share naming standard

• Format: \\es.msu.edu\[departmentOUname]
  Example: \\es.msu.edu\itservices

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Getting Started

If your department does not have an Organizational Unit (OU) in CampusAD:

• Request an OU and complete the required CampusAD training.
  • See: How to request an Organizational Unit

When requesting Elastic Storage

Provide this information to the IT Service Desk:

• Desired share name (must include your OU name)
  Example: es.msu.edu/itservices
• Requested size (in 1 TiB blocks)
• Admin security group name (Recommended: OUNAME.SG.FileshareAdmin as a universal security group)
• Estimated number of users
• Contact person’s name, phone, and email

Automatic mapping

Elastic Storage can automatically connect (“map”) for users when they log in to a CampusAD-joined computer.

Backups and Snapshots

• Daily snapshots kept for 30 days
• Weekly snapshots (taken Sundays at 12 a.m.) kept for 90 days
• Users can restore previous file versions themselves using the steps in the related article. 

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Additional Information

Instructions to map a drive to connect to es.msu.edu:

• Windows (link)
• macOS (link)

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