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External Hard Drives - Vmware 6.0

Hey guys,

Which external hard drives are supported for USB passthrough for ESXi 6.0?

I am going to be using VEEAM and backing them up to a usb external drive.
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Ok, so which ones are CONFIRMED working, hows that?
NONE, you will have to experiment. (other than those listed!)

Only the devices in VMware HCL support article, are Supported and Guaranteed to work.

The only problem with those listed are, they are now out of date, and retired.

VMware states this...

If a USB device is not on the supported list, set up a test environment with ESX/ESXi hosts and virtual machines to replicate your production environment. Attach the USB device to the ESX/ESXi host and add it to the virtual machine. If the USB device operation works as expected, you can attach the USB device to a production ESX/ESXi host and virtual machine.
How much data are you trying to backup? As Hancock suggested you would be better off getting some type of NAS device instead a an external USB drive.

You can get a decient SMB / NAS device for couple hundred dollars

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#tbm=shop&q=smb+nas+devices+less+than+500
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