If its not supported by Symantec, and you have a client
that does not have the full experience of Netbackup or the hardware, then they
could find themselves "out on a limb" !
Just want to avoid that....
Has anyone tried to do this by zoning the tape drives and robot
directly to the guest's WWN via NPIV? I would think you would have better
success/performance that way than if you vitualized the targets and had the ESX
host playing more of a middle man. Just
wondering.
-savil
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Dave /
Curtis Ok - 2 conflicting responses here! If its unsupported, then from a
business direction I guess its not a viable option to go this route. (If what
you say is right with the I/O then that is the last thing I
need).
Simon
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:49 PM To: Curtis Preston; WEAVER, Simon (external);
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[Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers
It is not supported. There are
massive problems with the I/O.
David K. Carpe Principal Systems
Engineer Symantec Corporation Office: 646.487.6012 Mobile:
908.963.6818 Home Office: 973.940-1805 email:
david_carpe AT symantec DOT com
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On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:13 PM To:
WEAVER, Simon (external); Bluejay AT fujigreenwood DOT com;
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Servers
It works for me just fine, but I don't think it's
supported.
Curtis Preston | VP Data
Protection GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. T: +1 760 710 2004
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Message----- From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net] Sent:
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:24 PM To: Curtis Preston;
Bluejay AT fujigreenwood DOT com; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu Subject: RE:
[Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers
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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On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:31 PM To:
Bluejay AT fujigreenwood DOT com; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 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!
Curtis
Preston | VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies,
Inc. T: +1 760 710 2004 | C: +1 760 419 5838 | F: F: +1
760 710 2009 cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com | www.glasshouse.com
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On Behalf Of Bluejay AT fujigreenwood DOT com Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:10
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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
"I took off my watch and found I had all the time in
the world." - The
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