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Apacheone
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‎11-15-2019 04:39 PM

Mount USB Hard Drive

I have a standalone ESXi 6.7 server which is running the free edition.

Trying to just plugin a USB hard drive to copy vm's from drive to host and vice versa.

I have read on-line about stopping the usbarbitrator service which I have done and then plugged in the drive.

From what I have read the drive should be mounted and an entry appears in /vmfs/volumes but I'm not seeing anything.

I can see in /dev/disks new entries appear for the usb drive.

How can I mount the drive so I can access the storage on the drive either by shell or WinSCP?

The Mount command doesn't appear to be included in 6.7.

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scott28tt
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‎11-16-2019 01:45 AM

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a_p_
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‎11-16-2019 02:33 AM

In order to copy files to a datastore, attach the USB drive to your local PC, and upload the folder/files from either the vSphere Client's UI, or using WinSCP (which requires that you enable SSH on the host).

As a side not, instead of copying the files manually, you may instead use e.g. the export/import from/to OVF from the UI.

André

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