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Sachin_Sawant's avatar
Sachin_Sawant
Level 3
11 years ago

FC Tape Library configuration on VMware Guest OS

Hi All, Is it possible to configure tape library on vmware guest os and how?. VMware 5.1 Guest OS win 2008 R2  Netbackup 7.5 thanks in advance.  
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    11 years ago

    Only disk storage is supported on VM media servers.

    See Statement of Support for NetBackup 7.x in a Virtual Environment:    http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH127089  

    We often see users on this forum who have actually managed to configure tape libraries on VMs, but then open posts here because they cannot get it to work.
    It's a VMware support issue, not NBU....

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chack22
Level 4
11 years ago

Possible, yes. Good idea, as Marianne pointed out, absolutely not! We had pressure a while back to make this work, and we had nothing but inconsistent results. Can it work, sure, but I wouldn't run it in a production environment.