HowTo: Using Tape Drives inside a KVM guest

[tom]

Martin just added a new HowTo:

http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Tape_Drives

Especially the iSCSI tape drive inside windows is quite useful if you need a small business solution with no extra backup server.
Just think of running a MS Small Business Server as KVM guest.

 

[ChristianAC]

Hi

Thats near to perfect to that what I need.

How about SAN-Tape-Drives ??

Is it also possible so zone them to the master and export them to the guest?

Regards

Christian

 

[dietmar]

Hi

Thats near to perfect to that what I need.

How about SAN-Tape-Drives ??

If they SAN exports those tape drives via iSCSI you can simply use them inside a VM anyways. Whats the problem?

 

[ChristianAC]

No. The drives will be attached via a multipath-driver from the SAN into Linux.
They will be under control of the device-mapper. That is not iSCSI as far as I know,
but it would looks like a SCSI-Device from the Linux-side.

So....just simple configure it as described in the HOWTO ??

Regards

Christian

 

[dietmar]

So....just simple configure it as described in the HOWTO ??

Yes.

 

[macday]

Hi guys,

does this work with the 2.0 Final ?

Thanks

 

[macday]

Hi guys,

does this work with the 2.0 Final ?

Thanks

Has someone tested this with the proxmox-kernel in 2.0 ? http://tech.kulish.com/2011/03/04/debian-squeeze-iscsitarget/ ... I really need a tape published via iscsi