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
