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Checkout my Article <br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_9349.html" rel="ugc">HOW TO: Add and Connect a USB Device to a Virtual Machine, hosted on VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX 4.1 ESXi 4.1, ESXi 5.0</a><br />
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or this is unsupported<br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_2094-Copy-files-to-USB-drive-under-VMware-ESX4-ESXi4-vSphere-console.html" rel="ugc">Copy files to USB drive under VMware ESX4/ESXi4 (vSphere) console</a>
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Checkout my Article


HOW TO: Add and Connect a USB Device to a Virtual Machine, hosted on VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX 4.1 ESXi 4.1, ESXi 5.0 [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_9349.html]

or this is unsupported

Copy files to USB drive under VMware ESX4/ESXi4 (vSphere) console [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_2094-Copy-files-to-USB-drive-under-VMware-ESX4-ESXi4-vSphere-console.html]

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@haccocka,<br />
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thanks for the reply. &nbsp;The first link is only for connecting the USB drive to a VM. &nbsp;The second article doesn't work with ESXi 5. &nbsp;/var/log/messages doesn't exist. &nbsp;And both fdisk and sudo don't exist.
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@haccocka,

thanks for the reply.  The first link is only for connecting the USB drive to a VM.  The second article doesn't work with ESXi 5.  /var/log/messages doesn't exist.  And both fdisk and sudo don't exist.

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Let me correct that, fdisk is found, but when I connect the USB drive, I'm getting:<br />
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Found valid GPT with protective MBR: using GPT<br />
fdisk: Sorry, can't handle GPT partitions, use partedUtil
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Let me correct that, fdisk is found, but when I connect the USB drive, I'm getting:

Found valid GPT with protective MBR: using GPT
fdisk: Sorry, can't handle GPT partitions, use partedUtil

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What partition is on your USB disk? FAT32?
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What partition is on your USB disk? FAT32?

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NTFS. &nbsp;I guess I need to repartition it as FAT32 on a Windows machine first? &nbsp;Also, I wanted to test this to backup VMs that were much larger than the 4 GB file size restriction on FAT32 volumes. &nbsp;Is there a way around that problem?
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NTFS.  I guess I need to repartition it as FAT32 on a Windows machine first?  Also, I wanted to test this to backup VMs that were much larger than the 4 GB file size restriction on FAT32 volumes.  Is there a way around that problem?

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I'm running GhettoVCB to take snapshots of my VMs on ESXi 5.0 free version. &nbsp;I'd like to put them on a USB drive for backups. &nbsp;I found one article online that says to use the mount command just like I would any other LInux version, but mount seems to not be present in the VMFS kernel. &nbsp;Is there a way to get the USB drive to mount so I can copy these snapshots over to the USB drive?
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I'm running GhettoVCB to take snapshots of my VMs on ESXi 5.0 free version.  I'd like to put them on a USB drive for backups.  I found one article online that says to use the mount command just like I would any other LInux version, but mount seems to not be present in the VMFS kernel.  Is there a way to get the USB drive to mount so I can copy these snapshots over to the USB drive?

Connect USB drive to ESXi 5.0 Server

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