B200M3 USB device Mapping

[Mohammed Kamal MOULINE]

Hello Folks,

We need to map an USB Device (sms model) to a VM installed on ESXi5.5 on a B200M3, can this be done by using the one of the USB ports present on the server KVM Local I/O Cable ? if not any suggestion will be very appreciated. 

Kind regards,

Kamal

[Kirk J]

Greetings.

General VMware notes for USB devices presented to guestVM can be seen at : https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-3E6E58AA-2AD4-4370-9955-07E5FBDE800D.html  and https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp#com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50/GUID-540EA00C-92A6-4562-AEE0-AEEDBAA2B02C.html#GUID-540EA00C-92A6-4562-AEE0-AEEDBAA2B02C

Cisco supports the KVM dongle for USB mice and Keyboards, although I have seen customers successfully use it for local USB drives.  The B200M3 does have an internal USB port meant to support a Cisco PID small USB drive.

What is the USB device you are trying to attach?  Thumb-drive/storage, etc?

This is something you can 'probably' get to work, but would not be able to put a TAC case in for if it doesn't work as it's not officially supported.

Thanks,

Kirk...

[Mohammed Kamal MOULINE]

Hello Kirk,

I want to map a Sierra Wireless Modem MC8795V to a VM that is already on the B200M3. 

At this time the modem is mapped to the VM by using the vCenter Client lunched from a bareMetal WIN2K8 where the modem is directly attached. 

Kind Regards,

Kamal

[Mohammed Kamal MOULINE]

For My case, 

Done by putting the USB model on the KVM Cable USB port and on VM properties added the USB device. 

Cheers,