> > 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.

> Do you happen to have any Technotes about this? or any forum links ?

Only what we were told by the HP and VMware support folks when we were 
trying to come up with a backup solution for a proposed virtual 1tb file 
server. We could not come up with any workable solution because of the 
lack of SAN-attached tape drive support and the inability of the VMware 
consolidated backup proxy to do multi-stream backups. Neither of these 
bits of information were easy to get out of them.

                                                                      - 
Bluejay Adametz
 
"People generally react to any new situation in one of four ways: AhA!... 
Ho-hum... 
Oy Vey!... and Yum, Yum. These illustrate the four basic states of 
consciousness." 
                                                       - David Brin, in 
"Earth" 

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