Tape device recommendations

[PavanAyyagari]

Hello All,
We are currently backing up our VMware cluster (30 vms) to a Veeam physical server. The repository used here is the local disk as well as a Synology NAS ( SOBR setup).
The archive for Production servers are copied to a tape device which is IBM ULTRIUM 5 HH 3580 TAPE DRIVE.
We are planning to re-do our backup infrastructure and want to check if I can get some recommendations on replacing the physical server as well as the tape device. Seems the existing tape device can only support like 8 cartridges due to its limitations and looking for a new one.
The proposal I have done is to do the backups locally on to the new Veeam server and move the archives to the tape as a backup copy job to the secondary destination.
Any help on this greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much.

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

Backing up to internal disks inside the physical backup server would be my preferred design. Two reasons: simplicity and performance. I would take a server from one of the major brands, because they usually work better than no-name products.

For tape devices, I hear mostly from HPE and IBM. Both work fine and if you need "inspiration", I suggest having a look at tape-f29/unofficial-tape-library-compat ... 17488.html

Best regards,
hannes