When a Windchill user creates information, such as a part or document, content files can be associated with that object. Windchill file vaulting enables you to specify that content files for a particular type of object in a specific life cycle state should be stored with the object in the Windchill database or stored in an external container called a vault.

Each vault contains folders, which correspond to storage locations (such as directories) on the host system. Based on the Windchill administrator-defined vaulting rules, an uploaded file is stored in the file system location represented by the vault and folder.

For content replication (File Server and full-scale), remote vaults and folders must be created on the remote site.

The folder must be mounted to the hosts. A mount is the association between a folder and a host. When you create or update a mount, you specify a storage location on a host system.

It is important to note that content that is mastered in remote vaults is not indexed for search. For more information, see Windchill Index Search Overview for Administrators.