Re: [ovirt-users] Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM

From: "VONDRA Alain" <AVONDRA(a)unicef.fr&gt; To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Stefano Danzi" <s.danzi(a)hawai.it&gt; Cc: users(a)ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 3:39:22 PM Subject: RE: Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM I can't unlikely take this solution, because I don't use oVirt and I have to use a CentOS 6.6 version because o f the kernel version 2.6 supported by Acronis Backup Thanks Alain VONDRA Chargé d'exploitation des Systèmes d'Information Direction Administrative et Financière +33 1 44 39 77 76 UNICEF France 3 rue Duguay Trouin 75006 PARIS www.unicef.fr -----Message d'origine----- De : users-bounces(a)ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] De la part de Yedidyah Bar David Envoyé : jeudi 12 février 2015 11:24 À : Stefano Danzi Cc : users(a)ovirt.org Objet : Re: [ovirt-users] Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM Another future option, targeted for 3.6, is pci passthrough [1] [2]. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/hostdev_passthrough [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099760 ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stefano Danzi" <s.danzi(a)hawai.it&gt; > To: users(a)ovirt.org > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 12:09:01 PM > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM > > You could share a tape library as iSCSI target and connet it to the VM. > I've never do a similar thing but internet give some suggestions: > > http://scst.sourceforge.net/target_iscsi.html > http://www.kraftkennedy.com/virtualizing-scsi-tape-drives-with-an-is > cs > i-bridge/ > > > > Il 12/02/2015 10.40, VONDRA Alain ha scritto: > > Hi, > > I'd like to know if there is any solution to enable a Smart Array > > P212 PCIe card over a Windows VM ? > > I've a Backup Acronis Software to install, and I'd prefer to > > install it on a CentOS distrib, and not on a Windows 2008 R2. > > Our old backup software is Symantec Backup Exec and we have to > > keep the possibility to restore old tapes on demand. > > So the solution to keep a sleeping Windows VM, and have the way to > > enable it, just to restore a tape would be perfect. > > I've tried to add a new hardware with virt-manager, but this > > action just freeze the manager, and I need to restart the libvirtd > > service to unlock it. > > If anybody knows a way to do that, I'd be very grateful. > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > Alain VONDRA > > Chargé d'exploitation des Systèmes d'Information Direction > > Administrative et Financière > > +33 1 44 39 77 76 > > UNICEF France > > 3 rue Duguay Trouin 75006 PARIS > > www.unicef.fr > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users(a)ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Didi _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users