HP LTO Ultrium 5 Drive - pass-through

[cristic]

Dear All,

Does anyone know if it's possible to pass-through HP LTO Ultrium 5 SAS Drive from the Hyper-V host Windows Server 2016 to VM running on Windows Server 2019.

I know that there is software like StarWind that do the tape redirection with the ISCi but I was wondering if this can be done without installing any additional software.

THanks.....

[ColetteH]

The Tape drive supported product matrix can be found at this site.  https://h20272.www2.hpe.com/SPOCK/Pages/spock2Html.aspx?htmlFile=hw_storeever.html

Then look in the directory on the second page for Hewlett Packard Enterprise - StoreEver - Virtual Machine Support.

It has a list of the softwasre supporting VM.

[cristic]

Hi ColetteH,

Thanks for the feedback.

I've looked on the link you shared and if I'm not mistaken there is no way to see the external HP LTO-5 Tape drive in the Virtual Machine.

Passing through devices to Hyper-V VMs by using discrete device assignment, not sure if with Dicrete Device Assigment I can pass the tape drive to the VM.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/passing-through-devices-to-hyper-v-vms-by-using-discrete-device-assignment/