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
hmm .. are you using the right tape driver?
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.
I am having exactly the same issue did you ever get it to work?
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:
Hope this helps
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