Veritas-bu

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

2008-05-13 07:48:59
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers
From: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson AT dsto.defence.gov DOT au>
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 19:24:33 +0800
    0n Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:10:17AM -0400, Bluejay AT fujigreenwood DOT com 
wrote: 

    >> 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.

It would be interesting if you could use OpenSolaris with Xen and NPIV to
server out a NB master ...

 -aW

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