Connecting USB drives to vsphere 5 using vcenter

[fyc3010]

instead of uploading info across the network to datastore in vsphere 5.1 i want to upload it from a usb drive but i cant get vcenter/vsphere to see no drive i put in none of my usb slots.  Can someone please help?? Thanks

[virtualinstall]

Hi,

What steps have you done so far?  Add the USB drive to the host containing the VM you want to see it.  Add a USB controller to the VM then restart the VM.  Then under Add/Remove devices in the VM settings you will then see a new option to add a USB device and the hopefully the drive you've connected to the host will be present through the wizard.

The procedure is listed here:

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50/GUID-3E6E58AA-2AD4-4370-9...

[fyc3010]

this is for adding to a virtual machine (which i needed also) but i need one where if i dont have a vm on and just need to see it through the config data store tab or devices tab where i can drag things to the data store without uploading it through the network.

[virtualinstall]

I'm not sure what you want to do is supported, the same question was asked on the following thread with some links to KB articles you may find useful:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/343194

[eltonfive]

or setup USB pass through to connect the drive to your VC directly