VMWARE HBA port problem

[imran_abdul]

i have san switch and in my server 2 hba fco port and tape device.i want add tape device to my VM that is located on the ESXI host.i can map tape to esxi.but when i try to add tape to vm.i have to enale throughput and in this case i use 1 fco hba port only for VM .but i want to add WWN to VM and connect to tape .normal such as network

[bmrkmr]

this is not supported since vSphere 5.0, see:

VMware Knowledge Base

and

vSphere 5.0 Release Notes

[imran_abdul]

no but there would be way that connect veeem backup to hp tape device i use esxi 6.5

[daphnissov]

Again, tape devices are not supported as either direct presentation to ESXi or pass-through to VMs. You need to use a physical instance if you want to use a tape drive.

[imran_abdul]

how i have done this via passthough but i dont use my hba port individual