ESX 4.1 Tape Drive - No communication with BE 2010

[adamboote]

Hello

I am trying to get a tape drive that we have to work

We have a Dell T710 Server with an LTO-5 tape drive connected to a H200 SCSI card

The tape drive shows up in the VM Client under configuration as

Name -      IBM Serial Attached SCSI Tape (naa.500507631208a3ea) 

Identifier -  naa.500507631208a3ea

Runtime -  vmhba1:C0:T0:L0

LUN -        0

Type -       Tape

Transport - Block Adapter

When adding the device to the VM under edit settings I am unsure what SCSI ID to select under Virtual Device Node

I have tried a few and I can get the tape drive to be shown up in the installation of Windows Server 2008 R2

The problem I am having is with Backup Exec 2010

I can inventory and label a tape but I cant backup any data to it

Any help is much appreciated

Adam

[idle-jam]

hmm .. are you using the right tape driver?

[patrickds]

This setup has only very limited support.

Vmware supports it only with Adaptec Parallel SCSI adapters, and even then they direct you to the Backup Software/drive  vendor for support for anything except basic connectivity.

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1016407

[dean132]

I am having exactly the same issue did you ever get it to work?

[adamboote]

We swapped our installation to ESXi update 1 instead of ESX and everything worked as it should

When we applied our ESX license to the ESXi installation we got all the same functionality

I believe that ESX is eventually going to be phased out and everyone will be migrating to an ESXi type system, it was a long time ago that I discussed this so I cant remember the details

Actually there is a big thing on their homepage recommending all new installations be done on ESXi and current ESX installations migrate to ESXi:

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/esxi-and-esx/?src=PaidSearch_Google_PaidSearch_Google_AMER-US...

Hope this helps

[AndreTheGiant]

If you use SCSI passthough you must add a rule in the host:

esxcli nmp satp deleterule --satp VMW_SATP_ALUA --claim-option tpgs_on
then reboot the host.

Otherwise, if the card is ONLY for the tape and your hardware is compliant with VMDirectPath, add the PCI card to the VM.

Andre