Cannot add the SCSi tape drive

Hi all

Im trying to add my HP tape drive to a virtual CentOS computer.

When I add in the properties of the VM I get the following error:

Cannot open SCSI device ' devices/vmfs/genscsi / vmhba3:5:0:0 '(scsi3:0): the file is not found. Cannot configure scsi3

I found this article which seems to be my answer, but I do not have a .vmx file to edit in ESX 3.5.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/199408

VMware Infrastructure Client
  1. "Configuration" - & gt; 'Storage' - & gt; Select target storage

  2. Please download * target VM *.vmx

Edit the vmx file
  1. Edit *.vmx (wordpad, etc...)
    (Front)
    scsi0:1.present = 'true '.
    scsi0:1.DeviceType = "scsi-passthru.
    scsi0:1.filename = ' / vmfs/devices/genscsi / vmhba3:5:0:0. "
    scsi0:1.allowGuestConnectionControl = "false".
    (After)
    scsi0:1.present = 'true '.
    scsi0:1.DeviceType = "scsi-passthru.
    scsi0:1.filename = ' / vmfs/devices/genscsi / vmhba3:5:0.
    scsi0:1.allowGuestConnectionControl = "false".

  2. Download * *.vmx

VMware Infrastructure Client

' Power On ' target VM

One got the job?

Thank you

G

but I do not have a .vmx file to edit in ESX 3.5.

You must have a file for each virtual computer vmx.

See: / vmfs/volumes/DatastoreName/VMname.

André

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