Mount a Usb device to Centos in ESXi

Environment for attaching a Usb device to Centos in ESXi: www.2cto.com client: VMwarevSphereClient4.1.0 server: VMwareESXi4.11 virtual machine system: Windowsserver2003: CentOS6.3www. 2cto. comVMwareESXi4.1 supports US... environment for mounting Usb devices to Centos in ESXi: www.2cto.com Client: VMware vSphere Client 4.1.0 server: VMware ESXi 4.11 virtual machine system: Windows server 2003: CentOS6.3 www.2cto.com VMware ESXi4.1 supports USB devices, however, you need to manually add a device. the configuration steps are simple and summarized as follows: 1. insert the USB device into the USB interface of the ESXi Server. edit the virtual machine configuration on the client and add "USB controller" www.2cto.com

3. after adding the USB controller, add the USB device"

The add process displays available USB devices connected to the ESX Server, and you can select "connected devices support vMotion"

4. log on to the VM and check that the USB flash disk has been loaded successfully.

If Centos does not have a graphical interface, create a new folder: 1 mkdir/mnt/usb to check whether USB has been mounted. find the correct device name and Path 1 fdisk-l. The information displayed is as follows: 01 Disk/dev/sda: 21.4 GB, 21474836480 bytes02255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders03Units = cylinders of 16065*512 = 8225280 bytes04 05 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System06/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux07/dev/sda2 14 2610 20860402 + 8e Linux LVM08 09 Disk/dev/sdb: 4021 MB, 4021288960 bytes10124 heads, 59 sectors/track, 1073 cylinders11Units = cylinders of 7316*512 = 3745792 bytes12 13 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System14/dev/sdb1 1 1 1074 B W95 FAT32 input mount command for usb mount 1 mount/dev/ sdb1/mnt/usb enters the mounted usb 1CD/mnt/usb