Using Veeam virtual tape server supported?

[ibarizz]

Hello,

I have a question. Would it be feasible to create a virtual Veeam Gateway Server (on ESXi 7.x) (as a tape server) and assign the connected ports to the physical library using VMDirectPath?

I believe that yes since VMDirectPath allows you to pass through physical devices to a virtual machine (VM), bypassing the hypervisor and enabling direct access to the hardware. But never seen this configuration before, nor Veeam's documentation says that it's supported...

By the way, the Veeam repo we are using is a different server to this Virtual Machine we plan to use as tape server.

Thank you in advance.

[ronnmartin61]

Please check the "Limitations" section at - https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120. "Yes" it will likely work, "no" our support team will not be able to assist with troubleshooting.

[Origin 2000]

Take a look to https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2007904 and read the note at the bottom.

I have one customer which use such kind of setup. Please take notice that a VM which has VMDirectPath device has limitations like no HA, no vMotion, no manually Snapshot, 100% ressource allocation and other.

Regards
Joerg