Physical or virtual BE server

[SkySquirrel]

Hello everyone
I need to deploy a BE server for backing up AD (virtualised by Hyper-V). The BE server will be connected to tape library.

Should I deploy it physical or on VM?
What are pros and cons? Thanks

[pkh · Accepted solution]

If you use a VM for the BE Server, then you would not be able to access the tape library.  This is a hypervisor limitation, not BE.