Hi
I am thinking about using ESXi however I was wondering if I would be able to plug a usb drive in the ESXi host hardware and have it show up in a Guest VM? just like it would if I plugged it in to my PC
Thanks
David
USB virtualization is not yet available in ESX/ESXi 3.x or 4.0.
Maybe in the future releases.
Andre
USB virtualization is not yet available in ESX/ESXi 3.x or 4.0.
Maybe in the future releases.
Andre
I hope they will put in a future release, they do it for workstation so would have hoped it would have been on ESX/ESXi, looks like I will hold off using ESXI untill they do, or until till I can afford to build a new server with bigger drives
At this time the only available solution is use USB to network products.
Andre
If you use RDP to use the guest OS then in RDP you can allow the use of a usb drive on the VM
AndreTheGiant - can you recomend any?
Formatter - I would do but at the moment its connected to my file server to increase the space and I dont RDP in to it much
There are any number of small NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices. Buffalo, Iomega, Linksys, Seagate, HP, etc. Many can use AD authentication. You can usually also plug in external USB storage devices. These devices are generally visible to the guests only unless they also support NFS.
AndreTheGiant - can you recomend any?
Most of them work fine, but most are not cheap.
See also:
Andre