ESXi

Please iam running in a little break now......

I have here one LSI9266-8i Controller running with Raid5 and Attached a LTO5 Tape.
If i made a passthru from the LSI, the Datastore will be disconnected, but the LTO5 are visible.

Please exist here any possibilities to share me LTOTape, so that i can run a Backup.
Iam running here with Esxi Free 6.7 U3

i see in the file Esxi.conf, are possible way, but i didnt have time to read more about this
Thanks and apreciating any answer!

i see here:
     [root@localhost:/dev/genscsi] ls -la
       total 1
       drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 512 Jan 18 14:36 ..
       -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 18 14:36 naa.500e09e0001ba37a
       lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 18 14:36 vml.0201000000500e09e0001ba37a554c54524955 -> naa.500e09e0001ba37a

Regards
Mauri

this seems a terrible difficult question Please can any one help me with this.

but please dont answer all together.........

I don't think that it is possible to pass through individual devices on a controller, but only the controller - with all devices attached to it - itself.
To achieve your goal you may need to connect the tape drive to a separate controller.

André