Kate
Can you just confirm the Master Server is communicating with a tape robotic 
library ? Physical one BTW :)

Simon 

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Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 7:40 AM
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Hi Simon

We currently had a Symantec do an upgrade at our site from version 5.1 to 
6.5.1. We had a master media server combined on a physical box. After the 
upgrade we now a have a virtual master server and physical media. From what we 
are told they are now supported the master to be virtual but not the media 
server. We haven't had any problems since the master went virtual.

Regards,

Kate 

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Hi Curtis
Well guess what...... there is a client that is looking at VM'ing Master and 
Media Servers and want to use a tape drive or robot!

I am under the impression its not supported or works. Your comments seem to 
reflect this may not be the case.

Can you clarify?

Simon 

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

When you say they don't support, you must mean that they won't give you support 
on it.  All you have to do is create virtual scsi devices for each tape 
drive/robot device, then you see the robot and drives in the guest OS.  

Admittedly, I haven't done it for production, but I haven't found it to be too 
difficult or unreliable.

BUT, I'm trying to figure out why anyone would do that in production.  
Performance SUCKS!



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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

> Is Symantec actually going to be supporting a Virtual Machine as a 
> Master or Media Server (San Media too), which can use SSO to share a 
> tape library?

A recent exercise with VMware a few months ago brought to light that VMware 
does NOT support guest access to SAN-based tape drives, and has no plans to do 
so. Some fiddling around managed to get a guest to see such tape drives, but 
they did not work reliably at all.

                                                                      - Bluejay 
Adametz
 
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