Placeholder for ads Just like you, I wish this site could exist without them. FreeNAS guide on burning the FreeNAS installation. ISO file onto a USB drive creating a bootable FreeNAS USB install stick. USB Devices as VMFS Datastore in v. Sphere ESXi 6. 0. In the last years Ive seen many requests in forums and blogs where people are trying to use USB devices like USB sticks or external hard disks as VMFS formatted datastore. It was actually possible in v. Sphere 5, but very picky. Some USB flash drives were working, others not. In v. Sphere 6, this behavior has been changed obviously. This post explains how you can use USB devices as datastore on your ESXi host. Of course, this is neither a supported, nor a performant storage solution, so use at your own risk. Update If you are looking for USB VMFS Datastores in v. Sphere 6. 5, read this article. Create VMFS Datastore on USB drives. Connect to the ESXi host with SSHStop the USB arbitrator service. This service is used to passthrough USB device from an ESXESXi host to a virtual machine. When disabling it, you can no longer passthrough USB devices to VMs. Use this command to permanently disable the USB arbitrator service after reboot. Plug in the USB Device to your ESXi host. Get the device identifier mpx. XX. You should see the USB Device in devdisks.
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