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Pan-YanRu's avatar
Pan-YanRu
Level 3
8 years ago

Can Backup Exec be installed on a guest os running on a hyper-v ?

Hi everyone: Do you know if Backup Exec can be installed on a guest os running on a hyper-v ? and backup-then convert physical computer to virtual machine on the same hyper-v, is't work ?   Maksi...
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CraigV's avatar
CraigV
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8 years ago

It's probably only going to be supported if you're backing up to a NAS share or iSCSI drive, but certainly not a tape drive presented from the Host as Hyper-V doesn't support SCSI Passthrough of tape devices.

And that support is going to be very limited from Veritas. Been that way for a couple of versions, and mainly tied into the virtualisation provider, and not a Veritas thing.

Thanks!