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  • 1.  Virtual Machines and FC Tape Library

    Posted Feb 27, 2008 10:15 PM

    I have a Dell TL2000 Tape Library that is zoned with my ESX servers in a Fiber SAN. The ESX servers can see the Library fine from the Linux San Surfer CLI. I would like to allow the virtual OS's (Windows) to see the Library as well. When I am in the VC Client and try to add a device to a VM, I am confused on what I should be adding. The only one that makes some sense would be a SCSI device, but it says there are no "none disk" SCSI devices available. Plus, it is not a SCSI Tape Drive; it is a FC Drive.

    Has anyone been able to add a FC Tape Drive to a VM?

    Thanks



  • 2.  RE: Virtual Machines and FC Tape Library

    Posted Feb 27, 2008 10:34 PM

    You cannot connect a Fibre channel device to a VM, since there is no virtual fibre adapter to be added.

    The only way to connect a backup device to a VM would be SCSI passthrough.



  • 3.  RE: Virtual Machines and FC Tape Library

    Posted Feb 27, 2008 10:46 PM

    Is there a way to trick VMWare into thinking a FC device is a SCSI device instead?



  • 4.  RE: Virtual Machines and FC Tape Library

    Posted Feb 28, 2008 06:14 AM

    Not that i know of.



  • 5.  RE: Virtual Machines and FC Tape Library

    Posted May 06, 2022 02:45 PM