Connecting a tape drive to a hyper v cluster host

[modenthal]

Hi, I have been asked to introduce tape backup but due to the limitations of the backup server I was thinking of adding a SAS card to one of the hyper v host servers and connecting the tape drive there. Has anyone done this where the virtual machines running on a hyper v cluster also have one of the hosts with a tape drive attached and usable by Veeam? i.e. one of the hosts is also the tape server.

[HannesK]

Hello,

virtual machines running on a hyper v cluster also have one of the hosts with a tape drive attached

Google tells me, that there is no passthrough for tapes in Hyper-V. So that's not an option.

i.e. one of the hosts is also the tape server.

I would avoid connecting anything to a hypervisor host. It might even work, but it sounds like a bad practice.

Best regards,
Hannes