Dmitri Joukovski schrieb:
> 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

Thanks for that good pointer, Dmitri.

In the meantime things (and the customer's mind) have changed:
It will be VMware Server only in the first phase (without HA), running
on top of maybe SLES10, so I will be able to simply set up Amanda on
that SLES-OS, without the need to run it inside a VM.

So that issue is "solved" for me now, as it seems.

Thanks anyway, greetings,
Stefan