Description

USB devices were originally connected to some existing physical servers. After these servers are migrated and deployed to the virtualization platform, these USB devices need to be plugged into the virtualization platform and mapped to the virtual machine. The virtual machine deployed on the virtualization platform needs to use USB devices, and the USB devices plugged into the virtualization platform need to be mapped to the virtual machine.

Precautions

1. Cross host mapping is supported. For example, USB devices are plugged into node A, and virtual machines run on node A or other nodes in the same cluster as node A.

2. Automatic remapping after recovery of abnormal conditions such as virtual machine fault restart and target USB device network interruption.

Prerequisites

One USB peripheral.

Steps

Take a USB flash disk as an example:

1. Select any USB port access device. If there is a cluster, select any node to access USB peripherals. After connecting the USB device, the interface will be prompted, as shown in the figure below. Click Setting.

2. Select the virtual machine to which the USB flash disk needs to be connected, and click OK.

3. The mapped USB flash disk can be seen in the virtual machine selected in Step 2. As shown in the figure, disk F is the connected USB flash disk.

4. If you want to modify the mapping between the USB flash disk and virtual machine, you can modify it on the virtual machine editing page. Place the mouse over the virtual machine to be edited, and click More > Edit.