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тАО04-01-2008 09:12 AM
тАО04-01-2008 09:12 AM
Can't get VMWare ESX 3.5 to see ESL-712e
On the new systems, if I go into the QLogic BIOS utility, I can see my controllers. They show up as the first three devices. If I go into the VMWare Infrastructure client, I don't see any part of my libarary. I did notice that the SCSI IDs in there start at 3 instead of 0 like on my working servers. It appears that VMWare knows the devices are there, it just ignores them.
Needless to say, I can see no tape devices from the VMWare Linux console. When I try running 'devbra -dev', I get nothing.
Any ideas?
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тАО04-01-2008 10:49 AM
тАО04-01-2008 10:49 AM
Re: Can't get VMWare ESX 3.5 to see ESL-712e
Do you see anything in the output of the command "dmesg" from the VMware Service console...?
Cheers,
Rob
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тАО04-01-2008 10:57 AM
тАО04-01-2008 10:57 AM
Re: Can't get VMWare ESX 3.5 to see ESL-712e
On the working system I see entries for each of the 12 tape drives in my library.
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тАО04-01-2008 12:11 PM
тАО04-01-2008 12:11 PM
Re: Can't get VMWare ESX 3.5 to see ESL-712e
I would probably sanity check that the zoning configuration is correct as a first step...
Cheers,
Rob
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тАО04-02-2008 05:12 AM
тАО04-02-2008 05:12 AM
Re: Can't get VMWare ESX 3.5 to see ESL-712e
If I reboot either server and check the QLogic BIOS utility (scan fibre devices) the controllers from my tape library appear as the first thre entries on the list.
As far as I can tell the tapes are available but VMWare won't see them. Anyone using 3.5.0?
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тАО04-19-2008 07:22 AM
тАО04-19-2008 07:22 AM
Re: Can't get VMWare ESX 3.5 to see ESL-712e
I believe that FC Tapelibraries is not supported in ESX3.5. (but was supported in ESX3.0.x)
iScsi should be supported though.
Check the VMware HCL to be sure.
//Joel
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тАО08-18-2009 10:47 PM
тАО08-18-2009 10:47 PM
Re: Can't get VMWare ESX 3.5 to see ESL-712e
You can back up virtual machine data by running a backup server within a virtual machine that is connected to a tape drive or other SCSI based backup media attached to the physical system.
When using this method, keep in mind the following:
* VMware supports attaching SCSI drives to the ESX Server using Adaptec SCSI adapters. Using other adapters, such as LSI MPT Fusion SCSI, is not supported.
* If you are using a tape drive library (versus using a standalone tape drive), the
library must be multitarget, and not multi LUN.
* Set the tape drives virtual target ID in the virtual machines configuration to be the same as the physical target ID.
If you look at the current EBS matrix - page 32 lists supported combinations for virtual environents.
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/ebs/pdf/EBSMatrix-0809.pdf
As you can see, there are some better ways to backup the VMs right now. (Data Protector VMware Integration or VCB)
If you like to do something unsupported, you can have a look at the following link.
http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=115
Regards,
Sebastian