Originally Posted By: Dignan
I need some assistance here. This client's previous tech support has neglected them, and the client desperately wants to move to the cloud, but I have to pull all their files off the server first.

The problem is that I'm not familiar with VMware servers. I can tell it's set up with at least two machines, one used exclusively for a file server.

All I'm trying to do is figure out how to make an attached USB drive show up in one of these machines so I can put the files onto it. Any pointers for how I do that? Where can I read up on this? Thanks!

You have to enable USB passthrough on the virtual machine's configuration, and (IIRC) restart the VM.