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USB Support for ESXi VMware Communities

    https://communities.vmware.com/thread/185013
    Dec 16, 2008 · If you have the USB storage device attached at boot time, it may already show up in ESXi. However, ESXi has fairly limited filesystem support - probably just VFAT (FAT16/FAT32) and VMFS2/3 - so if your storage device has any other filesystem on it, ESXi will probably not read it.

How to configure USB passthrough to an ESXi virtual machine

    https://www.vembu.com/blog/configure-usb-passthrough-to-esxi-virtual-machine/
    Perhaps one of the most common types of “physical” devices that can be attached to a VMware ESXi host is a USB storage device. There is a mechanism to attach devices such as USB to a virtualized guest operating system running on top of ESXi.

Enable USB Support for ESXi with VMDirectPath

    http://vm-help.com/esx40i/VMDirectPath/USB_Setup.php
    The typical solution is to use a USB over IP device to connect the USB device to a VM. With ESXi 4.0 it is also now possible to use VMDirectPath to pass through the USB controller (and thus any connected USB devices) into a VM. Note: ESXi 4.1 now supports pass through of USB devices.

Configuring USB passthrough from an ESXi host

    https://thesolving.com/virtualization/how-to-configure-usb-passthrough-from-an-esxi-host/
    USB passthrough is a very useful feature that allows to add to a virtual machine residing on a VMware ESXi host USB devices connected to the host itself. Usually USB passthrough is used to connect security dongles or storage USB devices to virtual machines. The USB devices must be connected only with a VM at time. In order to assign them to other VMs you need to perform a disconnection.

ESXi 5.1 has USB 3.0 support, sort of... TinkerTry IT @ Home

    https://tinkertry.com/esxi-5-1-sort-of-supports-usb-3-0
    Sep 26, 2012 · VMware ESXi 5.1 has USB 3.0 support, but it's currently limited to using the vSphere Web Client to map client-side USB 3.0 devices to the remote VM. Long story short, turns out ESXi 5.1 doesn't really support USB 3.0 in the way you might think. In other words, if your system running ESXi 5.1 has USB 3.0 ports, that's nice!

ESXi Hardware Requirements

    https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.esxi.install.doc/GUID-DEB8086A-306B-4239-BF76-E354679202FC.html
    ESXi can boot from a disk larger than 2 TB if the system firmware and the firmware on any add-in card that you are using support it. See the vendor documentation. Storage Requirements for ESXi 6.7 Installation or Upgrade. Installing ESXi 6.7 or upgrading to ESXi 6.7 requires a boot device that is a minimum of 1 GB. When booting from a local disk, SAN or iSCSI LUN, a 5.2-GB disk is required to …

USB Devices as VMFS Datastore in vSphere ESXi 6.5

    https://www.virten.net/2016/11/usb-devices-as-vmfs-datastore-in-vsphere-esxi-6-5/
    Nov 27, 2016 · In ESXi 6.5, there are some changes concerning devices connected with USB. The legacy drivers, including xhci, ehci-hcd, usb-uhci, and usb-storage have been replaced with a single USB driver named vmkusb.

Connect USB Devices to an ESXi Host - VMware

    https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-507F65CD-E855-4527-B076-567F27C98A29.html
    Connect USB Devices to an ESXi Host You can connect multiple USB devices to ESXi hosts so that virtual machines that run on the hosts can access the devices. The number of devices that you can connect depends on several factors, such as how the devices …

USB Devices as VMFS Datastore in vSphere ESXi 6.0 Virten.net

    https://www.virten.net/2015/10/usb-devices-as-vmfs-datastore-in-vsphere-esxi-6-0/
    Oct 17, 2015 · [Update: If you are looking for USB VMFS Datastores in vSphere 6.5, read this article.] Create VMFS Datastore on USB drives. Connect to the ESXi host with SSH; Stop the USB arbitrator service. This service is used to passthrough USB device from an ESX/ESXi host to a virtual machine. (When disabling it, you can no longer passthrough USB devices ...

USB Configuration from an ESXi Host to a Virtual Machine

    https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-540EA00C-92A6-4562-AEE0-AEEDBAA2B02C.html
    You can add multiple USB devices to a virtual machine when the physical devices are connected to an ESXi host. USB passthrough technology supports adding USB devices, such as security dongles and mass storage devices to virtual machines that reside on the host to which the devices are connected.



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