Something else to consider if you are open to using another VM backup solution:
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Veeam is so simple to set up. It has saved my bacon a few times.
Much appreciated! I think that may be the issue :) I tried a larger USB thumbdrive last evening and noticed it was able to see the drive. I was looking around for documentation on minimum drive size and cannot find anything definitive. Very frustrating, but glad that is all it was.
I appreciate the suggestion! Unfortunately, the board I am using has only USB 2.0 ports.. most are on the back at the usual location, but the ones I use are the internal ports mounted on the motherboard itself. I will try different port locations to see if it makes a difference.
I have to jump in and give props to FreeNAS as a storage option. I was originally running a single host in my home lab - a SuperMicro X9DR3-LN4f+ (can't say enough good things about this board) with SSD as a local datastore. Performance was great, but I wanted to run with 2 hosts for...
I am wondering if anyone is running ESXi on usb flash drives and ran into this issue with ESXi 6.5:
Upgrade to ESXi 6.5, installer doesn't find USB... | VMware Communities
I wanted to kick the tires on my lab vm hosts. For convenience and simplicity, ESXi is installed to flash drive and after...
I feel it gives you more flexibility to mount the LUN via initiator within the VM. It depends on your environment.
In my home lab I use my Synology to present iSCSI directly to the VM for things like failover clustering or other scenarios where you need shared storage. At my previous job, we...
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