Mount External USB Hard Drive on Cisco UCS Blade server

[reza.karim]

Hi,

How can I Mount External USB Hard Drive on Cisco UCS Blade server B200 M5. The Blade server running VMware ESXi 6.5 OS. I want to mount an external USB Hard Drive on the ESXi server.

[Kirk J]

You can use the KVM dongle cable that has USB port on it, but be aware these were intended for USB mouse/keyboard.

Trying to use this for long term storage is not recommended.  I have seen some customers use it to help transfer guestVM related files temporarily.

See https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1022290

https://www.virten.net/2016/11/usb-devices-as-vmfs-datastore-in-vsphere-esxi-6-5/

Kirk...