USB support on virtual appliances

Administrators of virtual appliances can use a physical USB drive for tasks such as uploading a new firmware, uploading or downloading a snapshot file, and downloading a support file.

To use a USB drive with the virtual appliance:

1. Format the USB drive with the FAT32 file system.
2. Attach the USB drive to the appropriate location.

   • If we use XenServer or KVM as your hypervisor, attach the USB drive to the machine that is running the hypervisor.

   • If we use VMWare vSphere as your hypervisor, attach the USB drive to the machine that is running the vSphere client.

3. Update the virtual machine definition to reference the USB device. The required steps are specific to the hypervisor that we use.

Parent topic: Virtual appliance tasks