Hi,
Question on tape backup on VMWare 5.1. We are running vsphere but that doesn't really matter with this question
Environment
- hp 1/8 g2 autoloader with lto 6 sas drive installed
- HP SC44GE SAS on vmware server
ok first of all it works...kinda...it detects the sas card and identifies the tape drive as a tape drive. Which is great but it doesn't see it as an autoloader in windows. basically the second path states "dead" under configuration on the vmware server..
I did some research and came up with this command to be run via SSH on the vmware server in question.
esxcli storage nmp satp rule add --satp=VMW_SATP_LOCAL --driver="mptsas"
the question is has anyone tried this? how do i know that this will not modify the RAID controllers that are installed and have the storage connected to them..
And yes i know about that kb article from vmware unsupported, etc.
Thanks in advance and have a great night!