Kate Can you just confirm the Master Server is communicating with a tape robotic library ? Physical one BTW :)
Simon -----Original Message----- From: Honeybrook, Kate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 7:40 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Curtis Preston; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Hi Simon We currently had a Symantec do an upgrade at our site from version 5.1 to 6.5.1. We had a master media server combined on a physical box. After the upgrade we now a have a virtual master server and physical media. From what we are told they are now supported the master to be virtual but not the media server. We haven't had any problems since the master went virtual. Regards, Kate -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Thursday, 22 May 2008 4:24 PM To: Curtis Preston; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Hi Curtis Well guess what...... there is a client that is looking at VM'ing Master and Media Servers and want to use a tape drive or robot! I am under the impression its not supported or works. Your comments seem to reflect this may not be the case. Can you clarify? Simon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers When you say they don't support, you must mean that they won't give you support on it. All you have to do is create virtual scsi devices for each tape drive/robot device, then you see the robot and drives in the guest OS. Admittedly, I haven't done it for production, but I haven't found it to be too difficult or unreliable. BUT, I'm trying to figure out why anyone would do that in production. Performance SUCKS! Curtis Preston | VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. T: +1 760 710 2004 | C: +1 760 419 5838 | F: F: +1 760 710 2009 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.glasshouse.com Infrastructure :: Optimized -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:10 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers > Is Symantec actually going to be supporting a Virtual Machine as a > Master or Media Server (San Media too), which can use SSO to share a > tape library? A recent exercise with VMware a few months ago brought to light that VMware does NOT support guest access to SAN-based tape drives, and has no plans to do so. Some fiddling around managed to get a guest to see such tape drives, but they did not work reliably at all. - Bluejay Adametz "I took off my watch and found I had all the time in the world." - The Association _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. 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