How does vSphere work with external faxes and USB License keys?

[theblackknight]

I plan on P2Vng a couple of servers, but one of them has an external modem for faxing. Another server has a USB license key.

Will these cause problems? Will I be able to virtualize these?

[Dave_Mishchenko]

Your post has been moved to the Virtualization Technology forum. vSphere 4.1 supports USB passthrougth which will take care of the USB license key. For serial modems you typically employ a Serial over IP device to make a modem network accessible.




Dave

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[Texiwill · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Even though vSphere 4.1 supports USB passthrough I still think a USB over IP device will work better as with this you do not pin a VM to any given host. HA, DRS, FT still work.

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