PowerEdge R415 - external SCSI tape drive?

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• Through host SCSI tape drive to the virtual computer with the backup software installed in the comments

  Can I attach an external SCSI tape drive to one of my hosts, and then add it as a device in a virtual machine.

  I want to use backup exec on a virtual machine, rather than having to have a separate physical server to attach the tape drive. I realize that I wouln't be able to vmotion the guest but as its only going to be a backup machine I am happy with that.

  Thanks in advance,

  Yes is possible.

  I have a Dell TL2000 with a dedicated SAS card and it works (not faster than in a real environment, but works).

  You add the SCSI ID of the tape (and the library, if any) to the virtual machine.

  Or, if your hardware can he take charge, using VMDirectPath and give the card on the virtual computer.

  André

• How to add map of SCSI tape drive to Hyper - v 2012

  Hello

  It is possible to add the SCSI tape drive card in hyper-v Machine 2012.

  Kind regards

  Hanssens

  This issue is beyond the scope of this site and must be placed on Technet or MSDN

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/home

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• How to find the host ESX 4.1 SCSI tape drive card information...

  Dear team,

  last night we have installed card scsi tape drive on one of the host to ESX 4.1, just want to know how to find the details of scsi card in ESX 4.1 host, is possible to find via cli or hardware status tab?

  need help on the same.

  concerning

  Mr. VMware

  Hello

  You should find the information you are looking for by entering the following command.

  less/proc/scsi/aic79xx/6

  Kind regards

  Ralf

• 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

• How to connect the SCSI tape drive to comments

  New user of VMWare here - I like it so far.  In any case, I have a LTO3 SCSI drive, I would like to use with one of our virtual machines running on our host ESXi 4.1.  I installed a LSI 53 c 1030 SCSI HBA, appearing on the HW compatibility list.  The drive is an HP Ultrium 920 LTO3.  I use BackupExec 12.5 x 64 on the VM (Win2K8 R2 x 64).

  I can't find clear instructions for setting this up in ESXi.  Nothing in the implementation or the Config Guide.  I'm not if I use passthrough or without passthrough, etc..  Can someone tell me the good documentation on how to get this set up and work or by post simple steps to get the virtual machine, see the HBA/drive?

  TIA

  Hello

  If you had plugged the band to the HBA and then restarted the server, you can go to your virtual machine, and then change the settings and in the Hardware tab, add hardware.

  Go to SCSI devices and add the tape to the virtual machine.

  In other words, if your hardware supports, enable passthrough for the host HBA, in configuration, settings in advance.

  Then reboot and go to the settings of the virtual machine, adding hardware and click on PCI device, add the HBA to this virtual machine.

• Collection of virtual device SCSI for tape drive node

  When you add a SCSI device such as a SCSI tape drive internal to a particular Windows VM, regardless of which node to virtual device I choose?

  This virtual Windows machine has two SCSI drives:

  -SCSI (0:0) hard drive 1

  -SCSI (0:1) hard disk 2

  Can I put the tape on SCSI drive (0:2)?

  Thank you

  Hello

  Choose a secondary controller and the SCSI ID of the device. If it is a SCSI ID 4 use something like 1:4. It's "best practice".

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• Write backup directly to a tape drive - how?

  Then... connected on one of our hosts ESX is a scsi tape drive.

  A VCB based a host file-level backup works terribly slow (400 - 500 MB/min) and an agent based at the level of the backup files works licensing costs (although it is much faster to nearly 3 GB / min... same servers).

  I read that it is possible to output a right TAR tape... without any sort of proxy backup software.

  I know VERY little of Unix systems... If I wanted to schedule a task of all night for all my virtual machines TAR, how would I go to do?

  The process that I realized it would be to create a script that:

  (1) get the tape drive (whenever I try to "climb" I get the error that it is not a block device)

  (2) Flash virtual machine

  (3) creates an archive of said machine virtual (I think that's what they're called?) with the output piped in the tape drive

  (4) the virtual machine unsnapshot

  (5) remove the tape drive (or go back to step 2 and repeat with another virtual machine)

  Hello

  In the penultimate chapter of the book, VMware ESX Server in the enterprise is such a script. So yes it is possible. I did it several times. I think I have a separate backup/VCB proxy server would be much more effective for you. You can then use existing free and fresh backup tools to provide a backup solution. See http://vmprofessional.com/index.php?content=esx3backups for a comparison of the tools. With compression you have much more space on the backup host to...

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• What external cable to adapter for dell 6Gbps PCIe SAS tape drive

  Hello

  I have an external controller of the HBA dell R220 with a PCIe (SAS 6Gbps) (Dell part in the 405-AACH citation number). I need this hook to a Tandberg StorageLoader LTO-4 - band - LTO Ultrium - SAS MFG auto charger. part: 7816-LTO which has on it a 26 4 pin x external interface shielded multi-channel SAS (SFF-8088) Mini.

  The seller (not dell) sent me a 1 m cable SAS internal (SFF-8087 to SFF-8482) which I am totally surprised how who can be connected even internally. Another question is, this internal cable is going to be useful for anything whatsoever for the tape drive login server?

  Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

  UG

  Hi UG,.

  Here is a link to the sas cable you need to connect your library to your server.  Accessories.Dell.com/.../ProductDetail.aspx; l = en & s = bsd & cs = 04 & sku = 330-8631

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.

• Internal tape drive SAS Dell PowerEdge T320/T420

  Hello

  I am installing a SAS LTO4 tape drive in a Dell PowerEdge T320 Tower Server.  I have the tape drive and the controller/HBA H310 SAS for the connection to the drive but I can't find the right cable for the H310 training. #

  I'll use P/N: 606JD, which is listed on the TBU for T610/T710 cable but don't know if it's the cable for this unit.

  Any help would be massively appreciated.

  Thank you

  Hello.

  Need you Cable Mini SAS to part number: J7KJW.  P/N: 606JD cable is not compatible with T320/T420

• PowerVault TL2000 library - tape drive that appears twice in Device Manager

  Just installed a new TL2000 on a Dell R630 server. HBA SAS 6 GB/s using. Windows 2008 R2. In Device Manager I see two "unknown medium changer" and two tape drives (IBM ULT3580-HH4). But in reality there is a library and a player.

  Windows has allocated an id different SCSI for each 'drive' and 'change '. Does anyone know why Windows detects two devices when there is only one?

  (see the screenshot of the attachment)

  Hello Martin,

  Cable how do you have coming from the back of the tape drive?  If you connected a SAS cable to the two ports at the rear of the car, then it's your problem because you need only the disk IDE oucederomsurlesecondport be wired at the time.

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.

• Question of 2012 R2 install Poweredge R415

  I have my SAS drives in a RAID 5 (PERC S300, Poweredge R415) matrix and also appear online. When I go through the lifecycle to deploy Server R2 2012 he does not see the drive to install the operating system to. I tried to load the driver retrieved through the USB port, but it happens to say that there is no available signed drvier. Can you tell me to fix the driver should I use?

  Rah33,

  Unfortunately the S100 and S300 raid controllers do not have support for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and there is currently no plan to support these controllers with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 in the future. If you use the S300 controllers, you must either get the controller hardware raid (h700), or you would need to follow this procedure to continue.

  • Open the server and remove cables internal SATA connected to the S300 controller and connect it to the embedded SATA controller of the server ports.
  • Power on the server and press F2 to enter the BIOS settings.
  • Enter the--> SATA settings BIOS setup and change it to ATA or ACHI mode depending on what is available. See Figure-1.
  • Save and exit the installation program.
  • Boot from the DVD Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and proceed with the installation

  • You can learn more about this here.

    I hope this helps to answer your question, even though this is probably not the answer you wanted to hear.

• Install HDD PowerEdge R415

  Hello!

  I recently bought a Dell PowerEdge R415 with the following specifications:
  AMD Opteron 4180 - 2, 6 GHz / 6.4 Gbit / s (top Six)
  8 GB DDR3 ECC RAM
  AMD SR5670 and SP5100 chipset
  PERC H700 Raid Controller
  iDrac 6 Express & Enterprise
  R2 Windows Server 2012
  Kingston 128 GB SSD

  Now, here's my problem:

  I initially intended to use as a storage partition 2 x Seagate Barracuda 3 to hard disks in RAID 1, but while windows detects their size it is partition 2 TB on them. I thought pole H700 would be able to use 3 TB disks. I was wrong? And also on Dells site it indicates the maximum capacity of PowerEdge R415s is 8 TB is true, or you can run 4 x 3 TB drives in there?

  PERC H700 can use drives of capacity greater than 2 TB. R415 maximum capacity is 8 TB + (the only reason it lists 8TB is because that was the maximum based on the largest drives Dell tested/validated at time of writing you found). Current data sheet shows 12 to:

  http://www.Dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/spc_r415_new.PDF

  The problem that you run is with the operating system:

  • Windows cannot use a more 2 TB drive unless it has been converted to GPT.
  • Windows cannot start on a GPT disk, except if it is installed on a UEFI system.

  So, you can either 'slice' the RAID by creating several bays on the disks, with less than 2 TB 'disc' boot, or you must enable UEFI and reinstall the OS in this mode (conversion of GPT is data destructive).

• Support ESXi 5.0 host FC connected tape drives in the virtual machine running symantec backup exec 2012

  Dear Experts,

  We recently purchased C0H19A: StoreEver HP 1/8 G2 6 - LTO Ultrium 6250 CF TapeAutoloader. The purpose is to backup of VMS data, I mean selected data in virtual machines, as for the exchange of data bases email for server accounts database SQL server etc.. We have a full VM backup plan, so using symantec backup exec software.

  We have this configuration:

  -TWO DL 380 Gen8 servers (running UPDATE2 Esxi 5.0), both servers have not all SCSI ports

  -One SINGLE HP P2000 G2 MSA FC Dual Cntrl storage

  -TWO HP SN6000 12 - pt Windows Pwr FC switch

  -HP ADF

  All them above are related to the CF. Symantec backup exec 2012 is also installed on Windows 2008 R2, which is a virtual machine.

  But now, we are unable to see the tape library autoloader through the virtualization layer in the device of machine Manager virtual backup exec. Reading on internet, I also found some details that connected FC tape drives are not supported by the Esxi hosts. We are really stuck in this situation, all the solutions to this. I also read the article from vmware saying configuration for Esxi 4.0 FC tape drives and later versions

  Installation of a physical server windows with Backup Exec 2012 and HBA and connected to above switches FC is the only way to see the ADF? Even after reading articles on the internet, I'm not clear, please guide what solution I have now to get this thing going, I really need to find solution to this.

  Waiting for answers.

  Kind regards

  Hello, I'm a Backup Exec support engineer and yes the method supported is only by connecting the tape drive to a server of physical media. See the introduction in the Backup Exec HCL on Configurations of http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH175582 and http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH146293 alternative

• In esxi 4.1 tape drive compatibility

  This is probably a pretty basic question. I'm relatively new to vmware and trying to determine if our tape drive scsi 160/320 BHBBX-EY Quantum DLT - V4 model is supported in esxi 4.1 (using the free version). Looking at the hardware compatibility matrix, I see our offer of scsi cards but am not finding references for the readers themselves. This is a matter that if the scsi card is supported, then the tape drive should work, or I am simply not find the list of tape drives? It is a single disc, not an autoloader. Thanks in advance. -Bruce

  Yes, no worries about the points.  Let us know how it worked.