VMDirectPath or SCSI Passthru - Making SCSI Card & Devices available to VM's on ESX 3.5.x onwards

Configuring tape drives and media changers on ESX 3.x

Making SCSI Card & Devices available to VM's on ESX 3.5.x onwards (PassThruSCSI)

So that VM (Guest OS) can access SCSI Card & Tape Drives / Medium Changers to fire Backup or Restore (directly from VM) -Currently OEM vendors are not supporting officially - But VMware supports

Details

This article provides instructions for configuring tape drives and media changers so that the virtual machines on ESX 3.x hosts can access the devices. 

Note: Fibre channel attached tape drives are not supported in ESX. For more information, see the SAN System Design and Deployment Guide.

Solution

(VMware KB Article- Click to visit KB