It functions as a regular USB port. I attach USB keys and external CDROM to it all the time and it works fine. A USB based disk drive should also work. Obviously your OS needs to have proper USB drivers but the port functions as a normal USB port.
You're wrong. I attached the same usb drive to a dell server that does not utilize the stupid dongle and has a usb port directly on the server and my ESXi host (same version that's running on my CISCO blade) and it sees the storage just fine. Does not work using the dongle on the Cisco blade. If it was the OS as you say then it should work on both servers as both are running the same exact version and patch level of ESXi and would therefore have the same drivers. Maybe you've gotten lucky with it...to that I say...good for you. Additionally you will see plenty of other forums and blogs saying that it won't work and that it's not recommended etc. and so on.
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