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 Conditions and Limitations When Configuring USB Devices for vMotion.
If a host with connected USB devices resides in a DRS cluster with activated DPM, you must deactivate DPM for that host. Otherwise DPM might power off the host with the device, which disconnects the device from the virtual machine.