Great explanation. Is it possible to unplug the USB Datastore from ESXi HostA, connect/mount to ESXi HostB? Purpose would be moving offline the VM's from HostA to HostB.
@@sysadmin102 versions are both 6.5 but different patches applied. When usb Datastore was unmounted from hostA and connected to hostB, then it appeared in devices list, but i do not understand how to mount it.
Just a quick question Thanks for doing this. After creating the VMFS Datastore on the USB drive and I copy some VMs vmdk files on the datastore drive, can I disconnect the drive and view the datastore on my windows computer?
Thank you for very clear video. I have a question. Can I move the external harddirve to other esxi host ??? I mean if I have server A with esxi 6.5 and sevrer B with esxi 6.7. After I mount external harddrive as datasore ib server A (esxi6.5), When I move external harddive to server B, is ths external harddrive can read with the server B (esxi 6.7) ???
Thank you for the video!!! I have this error message for the partition "Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk! AddNewPartitions: ped_partition_new failed" Do you have an idea please?
It will, but you shouldn't use a regular USB flash drive to store your VMs on. Your VMs will be constantly reading and writing from your flash drive just like it would if it were a real hard drive or an SSD, which is not a good thing for regular USB drives because they don't have the same controllers and don't have multiple flash cells to level out all the reading and writing. You could very quickly thrash your USB drive and kill it. You should use an SSD in a USB chassis as shown in the previous video.
Just a quick question. Can you please explain how to copy an application from my local computer to VM esxi. I have a downloaded application i will like to install on my centos7.
Good guide, thanks for compiling fgrehl's documentation and providing a succinct step-by-step. Much appreciated.!
You are a rock star. This tutorial was amazing.
Thanks you for your time and creating this video! You was easy to follow and I was able to achieve my goals!!
Thank you for your video. It worked for my ESXi 7.0 host.
Great video! Thanks for sharing the tip!
Great stuff. Explained very clearly.
Nice Video, works as you show in your video!!! thanks
You are a life saver. thank you.
MARVELOUS; you really save me!
Thank you
Congrats man !!
My usb does not show in the devices - how to fix this? thank you
thanks four your help... was perfect
Great clear video, but can you explain why this would be useful?
Fantastic. Thanks for the tip!
Appreciated very helpful
thank you
Thank you! It works.
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Good guide, give me some idea, i think about using Samsung Portable SSD T5. Thank you.
very good , bro
Great explanation. Is it possible to unplug the USB Datastore from ESXi HostA, connect/mount to ESXi HostB? Purpose would be moving offline the VM's from HostA to HostB.
You should be able to assuming host A and host B are identical. I never try on different ESXi versions, so let me know if it works
@@sysadmin102 versions
are both 6.5 but different patches applied.
When usb Datastore was unmounted from hostA and connected to hostB, then it appeared in devices list, but i do not understand how to mount it.
@@vilantas you have to use the same steps to mount using CLI
Just a quick question Thanks for doing this. After creating the VMFS Datastore on the USB drive and I copy some VMs vmdk files on the datastore drive, can I disconnect the drive and view the datastore on my windows computer?
The drive is to be permanently connected, not to remove from your server
Thank you for very clear video.
I have a question. Can I move the external harddirve to other esxi host ???
I mean if I have server A with esxi 6.5 and sevrer B with esxi 6.7.
After I mount external harddrive as datasore ib server A (esxi6.5),
When I move external harddive to server B, is ths external harddrive can read with the server B (esxi 6.7) ???
Never try that so I don't know the answer
Thank you for the video!!!
I have this error message for the partition "Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
AddNewPartitions: ped_partition_new failed"
Do you have an idea please?
Check your sector parameters and try again.
I tried to copy the file from local datastore to usb datastore, but the performance not good, like usb 2.0 speed,
Well, it depends on your USB controller. If it’s USB 2.0 then that’s as fast as you can get.
Thank's, it will work with USB FLASH DRIVE?
It will, but you shouldn't use a regular USB flash drive to store your VMs on. Your VMs will be constantly reading and writing from your flash drive just like it would if it were a real hard drive or an SSD, which is not a good thing for regular USB drives because they don't have the same controllers and don't have multiple flash cells to level out all the reading and writing. You could very quickly thrash your USB drive and kill it. You should use an SSD in a USB chassis as shown in the previous video.
Just a quick question. Can you please explain how to copy an application from my local computer to VM esxi. I have a downloaded application i will like to install on my centos7.
The easiest way is google drive :)
@@sysadmin102 Can you [;ease explain the steps involved?
didn't work for me. I am on 7
-sh: /: Permission denied
you were obviously skipping steps. In the video, I showed you exactly why you would get Permission denied and how to fix it.
thank you.