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MGJ's avatar
MGJ
Level 2
9 years ago

Disk Storage Missing

Hi,     I have a Backup Exec 2014 running on a windows server 2008 r2 platform with 1 CASO(physical) server and 14 MMS.     One of my MMS server(virtual) is using B2D storage seagate external H...
  • pkh's avatar
    9 years ago

    How is the HDD attached to the virtual server?  If it is not using iSCSI, then the attachment is not supported.

  • CraigV's avatar
    9 years ago

    ...Veritas have very strict rules when it comes to running a media server as a VM, and using something like SCSI passthrough for instance to access a real device like a tape drive or external storage wouldn't be supported.

    Read below:

    https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH130609

    Accessing a USB device might not actually be supported, and as such, you're going to run into a number of issues. Veritas themselves will probably not assist past the very basics of troubleshooting your issue.

    Best bet is to target an iSCSI LUN presented from some sort of storage like a NAS or an array, or, if you have access to disk on an array, present a VMFS volume (if using VMware for instance) large enough to act as a B2D. This would be seen as a local drive and part of the VM when moving between hosts etc.

    Thanks!