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It’s entirely possible what were you doing and what USB device were you adding
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I was adding an external hard disk so that i could backup to this volume. Its a seagate backup plus 3TB. What is the best way to backup vm
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Not via external USB. USB I/O is virtualised and it's slow.<br />
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Use a VMware aware backup product, and backup to a NAS.
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can you please name a product that i can use
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no problems, glad to help with your question, have a good day.
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Hi Andrew<br />
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I have done the below (HOW-TO-Add-and-Connect-a-<wbr />USB-Device<wbr />-to-a-Virt<wbr />ual-Machin<wbr />e-hosted-o<wbr />n-VMware-v<wbr />Sphere-Hyp<wbr />ervisor) in esxi 5.5. unfortunately as soon as it finished i had the following error<br />
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&quot;Connection error while establishing connection (11): Error connecting to /bin/vmx process..<br />
Cannot open a local pipe to local virtual machine '/vmfs/volumes/545c190d-39<wbr />f2aa78-7ae<wbr />7-00219b97<wbr />e66f/Stora<wbr />ge.Domain.<wbr />com/Storag<wbr />e.Domain.c<wbr />om.vmx'.&quot;<br />
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I had followed <a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/9349/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.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/9349/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.html</a><br />
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Are these related or totally different? How would i look at the tasks that happened. I had to stop the other vm as well and then i started my exchangevm. After this the other vm was started successfully as well<br />
Any suggestions
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Hi Andrew

I have done the below (HOW-TO-Add-and-Connect-a-USB-Device-to-a-Virtual-Machine-hosted-on-VMware-vSphere-Hypervisor) in esxi 5.5. unfortunately as soon as it finished i had the following error

"Connection error while establishing connection (11): Error connecting to /bin/vmx process..
Cannot open a local pipe to local virtual machine '/vmfs/volumes/545c190d-39f2aa78-7ae7-00219b97e66f/Storage.Domain.com/Storage.Domain.com.vmx'."

I had followed https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/9349/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.html

Are these related or totally different? How would i look at the tasks that happened. I had to stop the other vm as well and then i started my exchangevm. After this the other vm was started successfully as well
Any suggestions

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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.

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