Migrations with vMotion and DRS are supported with USB device passthrough from an ESXi host to a virtual machine.
Feature |
Supported with USB Device Passthrough |
|---|---|
vSphere Distributed Power Management (DPM) |
No |
vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) |
Yes |
vSphere Fault Tolerance |
No |
vSphere vMotion |
Yes |
For details about migration with vMotion, see Configuring USB Devices for vMotion.
If a host with connected USB devices resides in a DRS cluster with DPM enabled, you must disable DPM for that host. Otherwise DPM might turn off the host with the device, which disconnects the device from the virtual machine.