2020 by William Lam // 8 Comments I know many of you have been asking about this and today I am happy to share that the USB Network Native Driver for ESXi Fling is now supported with ESXi hosts running the latest 7. This will also add an new USB controller as you can see in the screenshot. Ensure that ESXi host has adequate memory to create the VM. 0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection 0000:06:00. 1 U1 installed on USB / SD Media” cauchie says: The next step is installing the ESXi using the previosly created device. 7 Update 3 to VMware ESXi 7, the NVMe SSDs are not recognized anymore. This article outlines that from the next major version, after 7. In future vSphere releases, it will be an unsupported configuration. VMware has warned users it will end support for non-persistent removable storage as a boot medium for its flagship vSphere VM-wrangler.
That one has been glooming above us since earlier this year when a vCenter RDU (Reduced Downtime Upgrade).
You can now boot into your VM (I’m using Windows 2016 Standard) and should see your USB 3.
