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POWERVAULT 114X, SAS 6Gbps HBA and Hyper-V
We have a POWERVAULT 114X with one LTO-5 drive in it connected on a SAS 6Gbps HBA card installed on a Dell server PE R630 running Windows 2012 R2, Symantec Bacup Exec 15 and Hyper-V role. Backup Exec run on host server and it works fine.
Now we need to move Backup Exec on a VM so I have installed a VM using Windows 2012R2 and Symantec Backup Exec 15 (same program version) but I cannot se the SAS HBA card and tape drive from BE15.
Are PV 114x and SAS 6Gbps HBA card compatible with Hyper-V? If yes how can make them visibile to VM system?
Thanks in advance, Fabio
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February 16th, 2018 08:00
Hello tech.info,
Tape drives normally don’t work well with VM’s & therefore are not supported on a VM. It is always best to have them on a physical system to ensure that there are no issues. You can try to use the SAS passthrough, although at times it can fail to reconnect to tape drives at times.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.