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

Hi Ed

Yes, thats the feeling I got, but I am being strongly advised by a 3rd party that symantec does support it. However, I am starting to have doubts about this.

And I have tested a DSU media server, and that is fine, but certainly cannot see it working in my VM environment here.

Simon

From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:41 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:07 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net> wrote:

I am being told that 6.5.1 includes VMWare support for Master / Media,
but I have not found any proof of this, so I may raise a call with
Symantec to get full confirmation.

This is not supported.

The issue is not Symantec - it's VMware. A VMware guest can not have access to tape drives, so you're sunk right off the bat.

It you want to test a Master/media server in a VMware guest, and use *ONLY* disk-based storage units, I suspect that it will work. No tape drive access though.

.../Ed

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