I read about the Hololens2 yesterday, it seems promising. The $3500 price tag isn't ideal but if it worked might be worth it. But I don't know how far I could test or confirm that a system like this found function for us without just buying it and testing it. It may have to end up being one a speculation cost if it doesnt work out, but all of this stuff is completely new to us. I think we have applications for both VR and AR, depending on the circumstances, but I think that AR is probably the harder one to pull off.

@JaredBusch Ideally, AR

I am looking into the possibility for work. We make large industrial equipment and I want to see how feasible the technology is to be able to project our 3D cad models AR style. I've experimented with this some over the last few days and I can get it to work on my phone using .obj and .gITF files. I think the next step is to buy some goggles and see what I can do. Anyone use them for work or games?

@taurex said in Hyper V Tape passthrough possible?:

@Donahue said in Hyper V Tape passthrough possible?:

I've just installed on bare metal, but now I've run into an issue where backup tape jobs are not supported in my version of Veeam. I can backup files, but not VM's unless I upgrade to "enterprise" veeam

Why wouldn't you simply select the existing Veeam backup folders/files and archive them to tape? Here is an excerpt from the official Veeam guide: "When a backup to tape job runs, it does not create new backups: it locates already existing backups and copies them from backup repository to tape. You need to set the source of the tape job: jobs and/or backup repositories."

What that is describing is the "backup to tape" feature, which requires the next license up from the one I currently have. For now I have settled on just backing up the actual files located in the storage repository. I think it's mostly a matter of how veeam sees the files. The method available to me copies them as standard files and I would probably have to do more work manually when I go to restore, because veeam might not know which files belong to which backup jobs. The other option, which requires the better license, implies that veeam will continue to be aware of what the files are, and when I needed to restore, veeam would know what to do and how to do it, and it would require less effort on my part.

I have not tested a restore from tape yet though, so I might still have a few details incorrect.

I've just installed on bare metal, but now I've run into an issue where backup tape jobs are not supported in my version of Veeam. I can backup files, but not VM's unless I upgrade to "enterprise" veeam

we probably have about 8-10 TB of real data, and I want to be able to store EVERYTHING on the tapes. I have two online backup copies in two locations, so this is my third and offline copy. The main backups are to disk, and so the tape is just backing up the disk and I think there is going to be less of an issue with transfer rates. The host that has the veeam VM has no other VM's on it currently, it's only running this one instance. That's one reason just going bare metal on it makes some sense.

My plan right now is to run the backup every week and have like 5 tapes in rotation, one onsite and 4 at the bank. My disk backups should account for any archiving we need, tapes are really more for DR that for casual restores.

@taurex said in Hyper V Tape passthrough possible?:

Hey @Donahue. Have you looked at free Starwind Tape Redirector by any chance? It basically allows you to present a tape drive attached to the host as an ISCSI LUN to your Veeam B&R's Windows Server VM so the backup software would see it directly installed. Wouldn't this solve your problem?

I have, but you have to be running there VSAN too, which I don't have.

@wrx7m said in Hyper V Tape passthrough possible?:

What is the plan for off-site storage with tapes? A service like Iron Mountain or someone takes them home and puts them in a closet?

safe deposit box at the bank

I'm not currently using tapes yet. I bought some LTO-7 tapes, but they've been on my shelf for like a year because other projects came up. I had been planning like 1 a week or some similar interval.

my plan had been to use real tape, as we wanted to physically move it off site. But things may change