Hi again, I complained that I can't make iSCSI targets of tapedrives using Solaris, and Aaron pointed out..
> There's some work in the Xen community to add a SCSI passthrough driver. > This would allow you do SCSI passthrough to locally attached tape > drives. Last I checked, a couple weeks ago, it was still going through > review. More information on xen.org developer mailing list, search > for pvSCSI. > -- > Aaron Dailey > Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Thanks very much, good suggestion (especially because all my other searches have dead-ended :-) Tho those are painfully fresh-looking bits, huh? :) I'll report back if I find anything successful or amusing. Seems like I could passthru a [SCSI] HBA, using ESX, and I know the evals are free and easy -- but I was really hoping to boot just a Linux or Solaris host, not VI. xVM doesn't get me there (yet), does it? Anyone had success with presenting *emulated* tape drives (to TSM/Netbackup) without spending $$$$ for a VTL ? If I can't get real tape hardware working, devices that just appear to be tape drives might be good enough... (I'm trying to demo/QA backup-monitoring software, so performance isn't an issue; but cheap & tape-like would be nice... ) -- Thanks, Tony Heskett _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
