On 27 jul. 2011, at 20:13, Stefan Folkerts wrote:

> Lan-free requires the installation of a storage agent, this software is not
> supported on the VMware platform so it's not possible to make lan-free
> backups from a client on the VMware platform.
> 

there is a lan-free agent for windows, which is of course the OS running SQL 
server. I'm convinced that you can install the agent on that OS without any 
problems. As said, it's the tape via NPIV in a VM environment that is a support 
issue, mainly because it's not tested by IBM, not because it's guaranteed not 
to work.

> What kind of data is it and where is it coming from?

MS SQL server ;-)

> Maybe we can figure out some other solution..
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Mehdi Salehi <ezzobad AT gmail DOT com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> The question is how to use TDP for SQL in a VMware environment. As the data
>> is multi-terabyte, LAN-free is necessary.
>> Is NPIV a supported method to present SAN resources to VMware clients? A
>> friend says that tape access is not possible and I wonder if SANergy is
>> supported or not.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Mehdi
>> 

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