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I am having an issue locating usb drives on my Vmware servers, I have three vmware servers running server 2012 r2, that are on my box using Vpshere.<br />
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I go into vpshere and right click and edit settings and attach the usb connector and the drive, but when I go to disk management or windows explorer on the server I can't find the drive. &nbsp;<br />
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With out being able to find these drives I can't do my back ups of Exchange, CRM and shared files.<br />
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Any ideas?<br />
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So far this is what I have done what is in this article, but it still doesn't show up.<br />
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<a href="http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000778.htm" rel="ugc">http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000778.htm</a>
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I am having an issue locating usb drives on my Vmware servers, I have three vmware servers running server 2012 r2, that are on my box using Vpshere.

I go into vpshere and right click and edit settings and attach the usb connector and the drive, but when I go to disk management or windows explorer on the server I can't find the drive.  

With out being able to find these drives I can't do my back ups of Exchange, CRM and shared files.

Any ideas?

So far this is what I have done what is in this article, but it still doesn't show up.

http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000778.htm

USB drives on VMware servers

Microsoft server applications are those applications developed specifically, but not necessarily exclusively, on the Windows Server platform. In addition to well-known products like SQL Server, Exchange, Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft Dynamics, Forefront, Lync and Sharepoint, they include applications like Skype, BizTalk, Hyper-V, Groove and Commerce Server. Server applications are managed with the Microsoft System Center.

Microsoft Server Apps

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.