use FC TAP drive in ESXi 5

[helltejas]

Hi

  I have read an article that FC TAP Drive is not supported in ESXi 5.

is there any way to use the same FC TAP Liberary to backup VM Guest OS?

[vmroyale]

Note: Discussion successfully moved from VMware ESXi 5 to Backup & Recovery

You could attach the FC drive to a physical host and use backup software on the same host to back up VMs. What backup software do you have?

[memaad]

Hi,

Refer this KB to configure Tape Drive to Guest OS VM

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=101640...

Note: VMware does not support Tape Drives connected directly to ESXi 5.x. For more information, see the vSphere 5.x Release Notes.

Regards

Mohammed