How to configure USB passthrough to an ESXi Virtual Machine



How to configure USB passthrough to an ESXi Virtual Machine

How to configure USB passthrough to an ESXi Virtual Machine

This video shows you how to access a USB device that is connected to an ESXi host (the actual hardware) on an internal virtual machine (VM). The technical terminology: PCI Devices for USB Setup.

USB Device: Seagate 8TB expansion drive

Steps:
1. Enable USB controllers from the manager
2. Connect the Controllers to a VM
3. Reserve memory and Boot VM

ESXi Version: 6.5.0
Author: Hayden Baldwin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayden-baldwin/)