Tape

Hardware

The following types of tape libraries (including VTL) and standalone drives are supported:

• LTO3-LTO10
• IBM 3592 (TS1160 and TS1170)

Tape device must be directly attached to the backup server or to a tape proxy server through SAS, FC or iSCSI interface. Note that VMware does not support connecting tape libraries to ESXi for VM pass-through.

Software

• Tape devices without device-specific, vendor-supplied OEM drivers for Windows will appear in Windows Device Manager as Unknown or Generic and require enabling native SCSI commands mode.

• If multiple driver installation modes are available for your tape device, use the one that allows for multiple open handles from a host to a drive to exist at the same time. Usually, such drivers are referred to as “non-exclusive”.

• No other backup server must be interacting with the tape device.