I've been trying to unsuccessfully add a USB hard drive attached directly to my Optiplex 7010 running ESXi 5.5 update 2 and I have added the latest patches including ESXi550-201501001.zip. The VM guest is running Windows Server 2008 R2 and I cannot get it to recognize the USB drive. I have tried to add the USB xHCI driver to no avail. I have tried the passtrough options in the ESXi client. I've read the vmware documentation and I just don't know what I am missing. When I try to add the xHCI driver in the VM settings, the vSphere client it tells me that my guest OS does not support it. I add the device in the ESXi client regardless of the warning and then I try to install the driver in Windows 2008, but it does not accept any of the drivers I have downloaded that are supposed to work for the device. I tried adding the EHCI+UHCI USB device in the VM settings and that detected USB controllers within Win 2008 but no USB drive. However, I need to get the xHCI driver working because I need USB 3.0 speeds. My VMware hardware version is 8. Do I need to use passthrough mode or not for the VM guest to see the USB drive? How do I test if the host is seeing the USB drive or detecting the controller? Thanks for any help.
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