Identify USB bus a device is plugged into on ESXi

SSH into the ESXi host and run lsusb -v | grep -e Bus -e iSerial This will display all connected USB devices that the ESXi host can see along with the Bus and ID. If your USB device is not showing up, it could be that the ESXi host does not have the driver for […]

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Raw Device Mapping

SSH into your ESXi host, if you do not have SSH enabled. You will need to enable it first, that is not covered here. Start by: $ cd /dev/disks $ls -l This will show you all of the disks that ESXi currently sees along with their raw device name. Find the disk(s) you are looking […]

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Adding Unsupported Drivers

In this example I will show you how to install an unsigned driver for the intel 82579LM, common on many superMicro boards. Download your driver, if your are trying to install the 82579LM you can get them from the downloads section of this website here. Otherwise you will need to repackage your driver into a […]

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