Last week I ran into a strange issue where I couldn't add a USB drive from the host to guest VM. Even with the USB Controller added to the virtual machine, the USB device is not listed.
After doing some basic research, I found the resolution is to restart the management agents on the host. 
To restart management agents in ESXi Using ESXi Shell or Secure Shell (SSH):
Log in to ESXi Shell or SSH as root. For Enabling ESXi Shell or SSH, see Using ESXi Shell in ESXi 5.x and 6.x see kb 2004746 https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2004746.
 Restart the ESXi host daemon and vCenter Agent services using these commands:
<pre><code>/etc/init.d/hostd restart

/etc/init.d/vpxa restart
</code></pre>

Last week I ran into a strange issue where I couldn't add a USB drive from the host to guest VM. Even with the USB Controller added to the virtual machine, the USB device is not listed.

After doing some basic research, I found the resolution is to restart the management agents on the host. 


To restart management agents in ESXi Using ESXi Shell or Secure Shell (SSH):
 
Log in to ESXi Shell or SSH as root. For Enabling ESXi Shell or SSH, see Using ESXi Shell in ESXi 5.x and 6.x see kb  2004746 https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2004746.
     
 Restart the ESXi host daemon and vCenter Agent services using these commands:

    /etc/init.d/hostd restart

    /etc/init.d/vpxa restart

Unable to add USB Drive to VMWare Guest

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