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JPM300
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Is it possible to use NPIV to map a VM to a tape drive / virtual tape drive

Hello all,

Just curious to if this can be done.  I know in all the documentation it talks about NPIV can be setup however it only with RDM's.  With that said I can't seem to find any real good information if it is possible to use NPIV to map a virtual fiber connection to a VM.


The purpose of this is we are trying to visualize one of our file servers however it is quiet large 3TB+ and transferring this across the network will just take to long so we where hoping to find a way to get a direct connection to the tape drive ./ virtual tape library.

Any advice would be greatly appropriated.


Thanks again,

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JPM300
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Or if this can't be done how are people dealing with large VM's 1TB/2TB+ over 1GB nics in their hosts for backups

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