You can add one or more USB passthrough devices from a client computer to a virtual machine on the virtual machine Summary page in the vSphere Web Client. The devices must be connected to a client computer that connects to the ESXi host on which the virtual machine resides.
If you connect to a USB device on a Mac OS X client computer, you can add only one device to the virtual machine at a time.
The devices maintain their virtual machine connections in S1 standby, if the vSphere Web Client is running and connected. After you add the USB device to the virtual machine, an information message appears on the client computer stating that the device is disconnected. The device remains disconnected from the client computer until the virtual machine releases it.
FT is not supported with USB passthrough from a client computer to a virtual machine.
Prerequisites
Verify that the Client Integration Plug-in is installed.
Verify that a USB Controller is present.
Verify that the vSphere Web Client has access to the ESXi host on which the virtual machines are running.
Required Privilege: