Kylie Minetta

Usbarbitrator Disable. To support usb passthrough from an esxi host or from a client. When an administrator stops or disconnects the arbitrator for troubleshooting or other purposes, usb devices attached to that host become unavailable to the virtual.

/etc/init.d/usbarbitrator stop connect the usb storage device to the esxi host. In the example below, i have two usb storage devices which have vendorid:productid.