When you say they don't support, you must mean that they won't give you support 
on it.  All you have to do is create virtual scsi devices for each tape 
drive/robot device, then you see the robot and drives in the guest OS.  

Admittedly, I haven't done it for production, but I haven't found it to be too 
difficult or unreliable.

BUT, I'm trying to figure out why anyone would do that in production.  
Performance SUCKS!



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-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Bluejay 
AT fujigreenwood DOT com
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:10 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

> 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.

                                                                      - 
Bluejay Adametz
 
"I took off my watch and found I had all the time in the world." 
- The Association 

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