Hi,
this can work (I admit I haven't tried it with TS1130) - ESX4.0 supports FC
tape drives (new feature - was not working with 3.5) and you can dedicate whole
FC HBA to the virtual machine.
But even if it works it remains unsupported.
Harry
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From: Remco Post <r.post AT PLCS DOT NL>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Sent: Thu, January 7, 2010 11:24:50 PM
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VMWare and TS1130 tape drives
On 7 jan 2010, at 22:21, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote:
> We are doing some serious looking at our "dr" (or BC) plans.
>
> One thought for an offsite TSM server would be as a VMWare guest and/or
> multiple guests.
>
> Since an absolute requirement would be a TS1130 tape drive (to restore the
> DB), the question came up about whether you could virtualize the
> TS1130/drivers so a Linux guest VM could access these drives.
>
I believe that the ts1130 is fc only, no scsi or sas, vmware doesn't support
access to fc drives from a guest, last time I heard. So there it stops.
If you'd have scsi or sas tape devices, you could get them to work from within
a vmware guest, no problem. Support might be an issue, if I read the docs right.
> If this is doable, has anyone done such a configuration, that actually
> works? What did it take?
>
> How about multiple TSM servers on one box (VM or real hardware)? How
> would they share the tape drives - only through library sharing as we do
> now? What if I had to cram 5-TSM servers on one VMWare (or hardware)
> guest, since our current configuration splits our 3494 library between
> 2-TSM library manager servers?
>
> Another thought was to have a "warm" VMWare TSM server running offsite and
> doing DB backups via server-to-server storage pools but was considering
> how much work it would be to rebuild another VMWare TSM server from the DB
> backups on this VMWare TSM server?
>
> Looking for any input/feedback on folks who have gone down this path,
> either successfully or not! If I have to go back to management to say
> "gotta have a physical server and tape drives to even think about
> recovering/rebuilding a TSM server offsite", I need to justify/back it.
> Zoltan Forray
> TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
> Virginia Commonwealth University
> UCC/Office of Technology Services
> zforray AT vcu DOT edu - 804-828-4807
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