Challenge
Product Information:
Company name: Quest Software
Product Family: DR Series Appliance
Status: Veeam Ready - Tape
Classification Description: Tape solution where available hardware features have been tested to work with Veeam.
Solution
Product Details:
Model number: DR4300, DR4300e and DR6300
Library Firmware Version 0104
Drive firmware version: 0104
Driver for tape drive: 6.2.4.8
Driver for media changer: (Veeam Option: Use native SCSI commands instead of Windows driver)
Media type tested: DR-VTL
Additional Support:
General product family overview:
DR’s Virtual Tape Library (VTL) is an emulation of a physical tape library (SUN/STK L700) on a disk-based deduplication and compression system such as the DR Series system. The tape library is exposed to a Data Management Application (DMA) as if it is a physical library with tape drives and cartridges, which the application uses for backup.
Veeam testing configuration:
Veeam Build Number: 9.5.0.823
Vendor recommended configuration:
Vendor Settings:
- Changer gets detected as "Unknown Medium Changer" and it is supported for Veeam. Just need to change the changer properties in Veeam to use native SCSI commands.
- DR series system using iSCSI to access VTL
- IBM tape Drivers are mandatory to install for Drives and can be downloaded from IBM site: Driver name - IBMTape.x64_w12R2_6248_WHQL_Cert