To find out where the device is connected, enter “fdisk -l” (without the quotes ” “).
Login to the server console using ssh connection (e.g putty).
Connect the external drive to the ESX server.
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The drive has to be formated (preferably ext3 or ext4).
External USB drive with enough capacity.
In achieving this goal, we had to use an external USB drive to backup and transfer VMDK files from an old ESX server to the new one. We recently updated our hardware (old ESX server) and had to export and import the virtual machines to the new server How to Export/Import Virtual Machine On ESX Server Posted in ESX, ESXi, Linux, VMware and tagged esx, esxi vmware, Linux by Stan with comments disabled. To mount the device, first create a folderģ.) After using the device, run the following command to start the usbarbitrator service **) If not automatically mounted, use the following commands to find out where the device is connected to (e.g. vmfs/volumes/NO NAME/ (just navigate here to export or import your files) The device might be automatically mounted under
PuTTY or the console of another UNIX/Linux systemġ.) Stop the usbarbitrator service by running this commandĢ.) Disconnect and reconnect the usb device.
SSH server must be running on the host (ESX/ESXi).
In the following steps, I will explain how it’s been done: To resolve this issue, the usbarbitrator must be stopped first before the external device can successfully be mounted. As such, the usbarbitrator service will always claim external devices plug into the host using the passthrough technology to make it available for the virtual machines. The reason for this behaviour is that the ESX/ESXi 4.1 is designed for passthrough to any virtual machine on the system. The problem is the USB devices shows up with “lsusb” but is not mounted properly. You may want to mount a USB device (Key or media) on an ESX server to export or import files (e.g. Can’t Mount A USB Device On ESX/ESXi Server
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