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Thank you for the info. This is what I was looking for.<br />
Should I connect the usb to a Esxi host &nbsp;prior to do the above steps?
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Thank you for the info. This is what I was looking for.
Should I connect the usb to a Esxi host  prior to do the above steps?

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Yes, you must connect the USB device, before proceeding with adding it to the VM.
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Yes, you must connect the USB device, before proceeding with adding it to the VM.

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when we go and configure another vm for another usb then there will be more than one usb will be listing, because this esxi has multiple usbs.<br />
What will happen if we accidentally select a usb which has already assigned to another vm, will the data on that usb be corrupted?
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when we go and configure another vm for another usb then there will be more than one usb will be listing, because this esxi has multiple usbs.
What will happen if we accidentally select a usb which has already assigned to another vm, will the data on that usb be corrupted?

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What will happen if we accidentally select a usb which has already assigned to another vm, will the data on that usb be corrupted?
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You cannot select another USB device, which has already been assigned to another VM.<br />
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Once a USB device has been assigned to a VM, it's assigned. (unless you remove it!).
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> What will happen if we accidentally select a usb which has already assigned to another vm, will the data on that usb be corrupted?


You cannot select another USB device, which has already been assigned to another VM.

Once a USB device has been assigned to a VM, it's assigned. (unless you remove it!).

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I am looking to configure a usb to a vm.<br />
The vm is in HA cluster and will be migrated from host to host.<br />
The usb will be attached to a Esxi.<br />
Can someone put me some steps please?, I will appreciate.
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I am looking to configure a usb to a vm.
The vm is in HA cluster and will be migrated from host to host.
The usb will be attached to a Esxi.
Can someone put me some steps please?, I will appreciate.

vm and USB dongle

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.