USB Drive on ESXI 5.5 free VM?

[A Former User]

Is it possible? help

[A Former User]

What do you mean? Run ESXI on a USB stick? Yes. It depends on the USB stick and Server supporting it though, not all work.

Or do you mean USB passthrough to a VM? for that you edit the VM Settings Add a USB Controller to the VM, then add a USB Device and select which device.

[A Former User]

No, i have a Host that I need to copy a ton of data from. 400GB. I'm doing it over the network and only getting 4-5MBs, i was hoping to get @least usb 2.0 speeds

[A Former User]

@Hubtech said:

No, i have a Host that I need to copy a ton of data from.

Is the data in the VM? You could copy it like that. over USB. If it's something in the datastore itself I don't think you can. without using SCP (SSH) to the Host machine and connecting the USB passthrough there: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/220577-copy-file-from-esxi-5x-datastore-to-external-usb

Also note SSH is not running by default on ESXI you need to start the service to use SCP.

[A Former User]

Way Easier than that.

select VM, go to inventory, add device, usb controller. then plug in the USB device, the add USB Device. only getting 3-4 MB a sec though.

[A Former User]

speed has dropped to 800K/s

[A Former User]

@Hubtech said:

Way Easier than that.

select VM, go to inventory, add device, usb controller. then plug in the USB device, the add USB Device. only getting 3-4 MB a sec though.

Yeah. That's what I said in the first post.

[A Former User]

installed the correct driver and things are speeding back up. lol freakin technology

[A Former User]

i read it wrong or something. sry charlie

[A Former User]

@Hubtech said:

speed has dropped to 800K/s

What is the Host's specs? I'm guessing it doesn't have VT-D. Or no VMware Tools

[A Former User]

host is a r620 heavy hitter. does have vmware tools

[A Former User]

only running 2.2MB/s wtf bbq