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Yes, I stopped USB arbitrator.

Here the result of esxcli storage core device list | grep -i usb:

Is USB: false
Is Boot USB Device: false
Display Name: Local USB Direct-Access (mpx.vmhba44:C0:T0:L0)
Is USB: true
Is Boot USB Device: false
Is USB: false
Is Boot USB Device: false

And the command: esxcli storage filesystem list has listed only the VMFS volumes.

However, I can see a new detected disk if I go to the /dev/disks ("mpx.vmhba44:C0:T0:L0" & "mpx.vmhba44:C0:T0:L0:1"). But still can't mounted as NTFS.

On the vSphere web client, I can see the USB peripheric. But the only way to us it is to create into it a VMFS partition, which make me loose all data contained in my disk.

Thank you.

Did you try to run the ntfscat command to see whether files on the "mpx.vmhba44:C0:T0:L0:1" partition can be accessed?

André

Yes, and it gave me the error:

(When I try with mpx.vmhba44:C0:T0:L0:1)

Failed to determine whether mpx.vmhba44:C0:T0:L0:1 is mounted: No such file or directory.
Forced to continue.
Cannot find attribute type 0x80.

(and, when I try with mpx.vmhba44:C0:T0:L0)

Failed to determine whether mpx.vmhba44:C0:T0:L0 is mounted: No such file or directory.
Forced to continue.
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument.
Failed to mount 'mpx.vmhba44:C0:T0:L0': Invalid argument.
The device 'mpx.vmhba44:C0:T0:L0' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?
ERROR: couldn't mount volume: Invalid argument.

I use "scp" for that kind of task. So enable SSH Server on esx and youre ready to go.

The use of the datastore browser is also an option. Not sure how stable it is.

If its a large VM think about to copy it to a NFS server which than can be mount directly on the ESXi.

Regards,

Joerg

So, is it definelty impossible to mount an NTFS disk ?

Yes. ESXi cannot read NTFS filesystems.

Ok.

Is there a solution to copy my virtual machine from my Laptop to the ESXi server ? (without relying on LAN network).

Thanks.

Not that I'm aware of with any reliability.

Maybe, a direct connection between the laptop and ESXi using a crossover cable? Have not tried it anytime, so this is just a shot in the dark.

Cheers,

Supreet

Oh ! It's very frustrating at the end, when simple things are not faisable.

I will try to format another disk to VMFS in order to be able to read it on ESXi.

Is VMFS readable under Windows ?

Thanks for your help !

No, Windows cannot read VMFS.

Linux can read VMFS 5. Write support of VMFS 5 is highly experimental.
Reading VMFS 6 is coming but flagged as experimental at the moment.
By the way using VMFS on USB-disks is also experimental.
I understand that you think this should be easy !
But it is not. I tried it a couple of times and it only worked in one test scenario - everytime when I really needed it it was not working .,..
You will safe time and trouble if you forget the plan to use a USB-disk.
Use WinSCP or create a tar-archive from your VM - upload it to a fileserver and then use ESXi wget to download it.
WinSCP is the preferred way ...

Thanks a lot continuum

I will take your advices, and forget the USB plan.

Hi,

after upgrading my environment to 6.7U1 a Windows XP VM is reporting, that there is a new Version of VMware Tools available.

Must be a bug, or is there really a new version of VMware Tools available? If so, where?

Kind regards

Stefan

Is it reporting for all the VMs or just this Windows XP VM? Is this being reported on the VM Summary tab?

Cheers,

Supreet

Look at this screenshot:

Is it showing for all the VMs?

Cheers,

Supreet

I have only one Windows XP VM, on the rest of the VM's (Windows 7, Server 2012R2 and up) the message was shown too, but there i updated the VMware Tools and the message disappears, as expected...

When i try this on the XP VM i got a error thet the required iso isn't available. Shure, XP, 2000, 2003 is on the winPreVista.iso which isn't part of the normal ESX installation. But the newest version of this VMware Tools i found are the Version 10.0.12.

I tryed to install, but i can only select Repair, Modify or Uninstall, so the same version must be installed...

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