August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
598 pages
13h 22m
English
In vSphere 6.5, a virtual machine can access multiple USB devices, such as mass storage devices and security dongles that are attached to the ESXi host on which the VM resides, relying on USB passthrough technology.
Only one virtual machine at a time can connect to a USB device and until the virtual machine is powered on, the connected USB device is not available to other virtual machines running in the host. To access a USB device from a virtual machine, the VM requires a USB controller in the configuration settings.
USB passthrough technology allows the virtual machines direct access to USB devices that are attached to the hosting ESXi and requires the following components: ...
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