Mount USB Drive on Esxi 6.5 Host
I have ESXI 6.5 (No Center / Sphere), Installed Centos 7 as guest VM.
I want to mount my usb drive in centos 7 to share it with samba on network.
But ESXI doesn't seems to work in my satiation
[root@271:/vmfs/volumes] lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:7d40 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1058:1042 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0e0f:8002 VMware, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0e0f:8002 VMware, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0e0f:8003 VMware, Inc.
Here Hewlett-Packard
and Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
are my usb and drives.
ESXI WEB UI is greyed out on usb option
Please help me out to mount these drive in centos VM .
Solution 1:
I rebooted VM and ESXI node.
Go to settings specified to VM > Add another device >> USB DEVICE >> Select Mounted Device
It was that simple and there is no simple guide on internet about this.