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https://communities.vmware.com/thread/337452
Nov 23, 2011 · Vmware ESXi supports scsi tape drive but its has to supported and validated by Vendor, VMware doesnt validate it. If you look at the KB its say like this and if you look at the guide "vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-storage-guide" page 35 its says that FC connected taper drives are not supported but scsi connected tape drives are still supported.
https://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/devices_genscsi_ws.html
Generic SCSI on a Windows Host Operating System Using the SCSI Generic driver in Windows, VMware Workstation allows your guest operating system to operate generic SCSI devices — including scanners, tape drives and other data storage devices — in a virtual machine.
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/15.0/com.vmware.ws.using.doc/GUID-69783E2C-3656-45AE-A5C9-8349D88F33B9.html
With Generic SCSI support, you can use devices in a virtual machine without installing drivers in the host operating system. Generic SCSI support works with scanners, CD-ROM drives, DVD drives, tape drives, and other SCSI devices. The LSI Logic LSI53C10xx Ultra320 SCSI I/O controller is supported.
https://community.hpe.com/t5/StoreEver-Tape-Storage/Standalone-LTO5-SAS-Tape-Drive-in-VMWare-ESX-ESXi/td-p/4742797
Hi All, A customer of ours has a small business environment with a single Proliant DL380-G6 server running VMWare ESXi v4.0. To date they have been doing their backups with Backup Exec using a SCSI attached HP LTO2 standalone tape drive. This uses the SCSI Pass-thru feature in ESX to map the tape …
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1996165-esxi-6-0-tape-passthrough
May 31, 2017 · I want to run an external tape drive off a server which has Veeam running on a VM under Esxi, this means I can retire an old physical server which is being used only to drive the tape. Before you ask, we already have disk and cloud backups but this is the third line. HP DL360 G6 server Esxi 6.0 + …
https://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_devices_scsi.html
Generic SCSI lets a virtual machine run any SCSI device that is supported by the guest operating system in the virtual machine. Generic SCSI gives the guest operating system direct access to SCSI devices connected to the host, such as scanners and tape drives.
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