[ovirt-users] Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM

Thu Feb 12 14:13:44 UTC 2015

That's right the Windows VM is managed by libvirt via virt-manager on a CentOS 6.6 host.
I just want to share my HP Smart Array P212 PCIe SAS Card between Acronis (on physical CentOS 6.6) and Symantec Backup Exec (on Windows 2008 VM), I need to be able to restore files from DAT tapes created in Backup Exec.
So the Windows will be UP only for emergency backup, the rest of the time the device will be used to make new backup/Restore operations.
I just want to have a backup solution, for old files without keeping a physical server for that.

Alain VONDRA
Chargé d'exploitation des Systèmes d'Information
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UNICEF France
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-----Message d'origine-----
De : Yedidyah Bar David [mailto:didi at redhat.com]
Envoyé : jeudi 12 février 2015 15:02
À : VONDRA Alain
Cc : Stefano Danzi; users at ovirt.org
Objet : Re: Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM

So your Windows VM is managed by libvirt directly? virt-manager/virsh?
Then I think it should be supported, never tried that myself. Try searching for 'libvirt pci passthrough' and/or ask on some libvirt mailing list.

If it's something else, please give more details - explain what you want/need to run where, OSes, virt tools/products and versions, etc.

Best,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "VONDRA Alain" <AVONDRA at unicef.fr>
> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Stefano Danzi" <s.danzi at hawai.it>, users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 3:54:55 PM
> Subject: RE: Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM
>
> I use libvirt for this backup server, and I also have a cluster on
> oVirt, but for this case I only want to use a virtualized Windows 2008
> to in case restore old tape created on our old Symantec BackUp Exec 2010 software.
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> 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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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Yedidyah Bar David [mailto:didi at redhat.com] Envoyé : jeudi 12
> février 2015 14:45 À : VONDRA Alain Cc : Stefano Danzi;
> users at ovirt.org Objet : Re: Enable Smart Array P212 thru VM
>
> I thought that if you ask on users at ovirt, you use ovirt...
>
> What do you use, then? iiuc libvirt already supports that.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "VONDRA Alain" <AVONDRA at unicef.fr>
> > To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>, "Stefano Danzi"
> > <s.danzi at hawai.it>
> > Cc: users at 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
> >
> >
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> >
> > 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 at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] De la
> > part de Yedidyah Bar David Envoyé : jeudi 12 février 2015 11:24 À :
> > Stefano Danzi Cc : users at 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 at hawai.it>
> > > To: users at 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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