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Plug-in the external USB drive to ESX Server directly to backup or copy

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 7, 2017

Sometimes you would like to use your external USB drive to backup (transfer) your VMDK files directly from your ESX Server external USB drive. VMDK files are files with extention *.VMDK and those files are virtual hard disks of your virtual machines. You can also mount VMDK files directly into your Windows PC. When you […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Backup ESX to external USB drive, Backup for ESXi, External USB drive Backup, storage device, system management tool, usb device, virtual disks, VMFS, VMWare ESX

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