I have recently virtualised my SQL Server 2005 and it works fine.
On my physical machine is attached an internal TAPE device for Backups (internal HP Ultrium 448 Tape device connected to the motherboard using a SAS Cable to the host SAS controller card)
It's recognised on the physical machine's device management console.
Now I have a Hyper-V role enabled Win 2K8 Server on witch I've a Win 2K8 server VM running SQL server 2005. -> In the VM's devmgmt.msc i noticed that no Tape device was listed !!
Can I emulate that device ? Is there some iSCSI initiators ?
I'm searching different solutions in parralel such as powershell scripting or host (parent partition) based Tape Backup tool but the best solution if it exists on my case would be to directly access the TAPE from the VM so that I could lunch the backups from the SQL mgmt console....
you are on a French forum!!! But we will try to answer you.
It should be possible to have some specific hardware usable in Virtual Machine in the future HyperV (in Windows 2008 R2), but I have not seen that at this moment.
So, no iSCSI will not help you to access the Tape device. You will have to dump SQL databases on files, and then save them from the parent partition.
you are on a French forum!!! But we will try to answer you.
It should be possible to have some specific hardware usable in Virtual Machine in the future HyperV (in Windows 2008 R2), but I have not seen that at this moment.
So, no iSCSI will not help you to access the Tape device. You will have to dump SQL databases on files, and then save them from the parent partition.
