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ok, what I mean is to remove it from the VM using vSphere console.<br />
Does it cause any downtime or outage to the Windows Server ?
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ok, what I mean is to remove it from the VM using vSphere console.
Does it cause any downtime or outage to the Windows Server ?

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yeah, I'll schedule it after hours then.
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Good Choice! Make sure you have Full Backups before any changes!
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Good Choice! Make sure you have Full Backups before any changes!

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Hi People,<br />
<br />
When I execute the following wonderful script from Alan Renouf <br />

<pre><code id="code-10-28548218-1">https://github.com/alanrenouf/vCheck-vSphere</code></pre>
<br />
I noticed that there are quite a few around 25% of my VMs got Unwanted virtual hardware found &quot;USB controller&quot;?<br />
<br />
so how can I safely remove it without affecting the underlying Virtual Machine operations ?<br />
<br />
is it safe to be done over the business hours ?
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Hi People,

When I execute the following wonderful script from Alan Renouf 
(CODE)

I noticed that there are quite a few around 25% of my VMs got Unwanted virtual hardware found "USB controller"?

so how can I safely remove it without affecting the underlying Virtual Machine operations ?

is it safe to be done over the business hours ?

Removing or disconnecting unused VM hardware from running VM ?

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.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

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