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What are you trying to achieve, tape based backup of the ESX host?<br />
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Personally, I'd use a script to an NFS share.
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What are you trying to achieve, tape based backup of the ESX host?

Personally, I'd use a script to an NFS share.

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If I understand you correctly the tape drive is attached to the ESX host and you wish to use that device in a virtual machine running on that host.<br />
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In that case you will need to configure SCSI passthrough and assign the tape drive to the VM.<br />
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Good Luck
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If I understand you correctly the tape drive is attached to the ESX host and you wish to use that device in a virtual machine running on that host.

In that case you will need to configure SCSI passthrough and assign the tape drive to the VM.

Good Luck

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Correct bgoering,<br />
what are the steps to configure the scsi passthrough?<br />
thanks!
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Correct bgoering,
what are the steps to configure the scsi passthrough?
thanks!

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Hello Experts,<br />
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I have a scsi tape drive attached to vmware host machine and I am tryoing to set it up on one of the vmware server. Any ideas?<br />
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Thanks,
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Hello Experts,

I have a scsi tape drive attached to vmware host machine and I am tryoing to set it up on one of the vmware server. Any ideas?

Thanks,

SCSI Tape drive on ESX

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.