After starting from scratch I came up with a working solution. Here is what I did: 1. Add and setup an extra virtual HDD (perhaps unnessesary). 2. Install StarWind software with default settings. Answer yes to questions. 3. On the question where to set the default storage pool. Select the extra HDD ...

It is working better now. I uploaded a screenshot of what it looks like now. My observations so far: C:\starwind must exist prior to running CreateVirtualTapeLibrary.ps1 AddVirtualTape.ps1 has $deviceName="VTL1". When I change to $deviceName="vtl1" it works. The drive/device is s...

Of course, here it is. Because of the upload limit of 256KiB I had to extract the zip-file and compress it with WinRar.

I have a question regarding how to get VTL free working. The goal is to get Backup Exec to think there are a physical tape drive present. The setup is as follows: WMWare Workstation player 15.1.0 Windows Server 2016 Standard Evaluation 1607 14393.3181 Backup Exec Server Trial 20.4 rev 1188 StarWind ...