I have an esxi 5 server with a USB hub attached. A number of windows 7 guests are loaded in this. I need to configure the system so that the USB devices will deterministically associate with the correct VM. For example, I need to ensure that VM guest 1 always grabs the USB device in the hub's slot 1, vm2 to USB2, etc. I can map the USB devices to the VMs, but when the host is power cycled, the mapping is not predictably restored.
How can I provision this so that the mapping remains locked? Is this something I do in VCenter? Somewhere else?