Hi there,

For a long time VMware did not support any SCSI tape drives attached to
Virtual Machines. However, with ESX server 3.x they do support SCSI tape
drives and libraries with the following caveats:
- VMware supports attaching SCSI drives to the ESX Server using Adaptec SCSI
adapters. Using other adapters, such as LSI MPT‐Fusion SCSI, is not
supported.
- If you are using a tape drive library (versus using a stand‐alone tape
drive), the library must be multi target, and not multi‐LUN.
- Set the tape drive’s virtual target ID in the virtual machine’s
configuration to be the same as the physical target ID.

The source of the above is http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_backup_guide.pdf

Regards
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Dmitri Joukovski

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda 
DOT org]
On Behalf Of Stefan G. Weichinger
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 2:27 AM
To: Greg Troxel
Cc: Amanda user's group
Subject: Re: Amanda inside a Virtual Machine?

Greg Troxel schrieb:
> I run amanda clients in Xen domUs all the time with no issues.  For the
> server/tape drive question, the question is really: can one configure
> the virtualization system so that the virtual machine on which you want
> to run an amanda server has a tape drive?  This is all about your VM
> system and pretty much nothing about amanda.  If so, it will work fine,
> and if not, not at all.

Correct info.
I was looking for success reports with VMware server.
sgw