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.
Moderator: Moved to ESXi
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