[ovirt-users] Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM

[VONDRA Alain]

Hi,
Thank you for the links, the first second one seems to be too expensive, but the first one give an nice way.
I'm trying to compile the solution and give a try on it, sounds good.
We'll see...




Alain VONDRA
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De : users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] De la part de Stefano Danzi
Envoyé : jeudi 12 février 2015 11:09
À : users at ovirt.org
Objet : 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-iscsi-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
>
>
>
>
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