External USB devices showing as Storage Adapters on Dell hardware using iDRAC
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Article ID: 305999
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VMware vSphere ESXi
Issue/Introduction
Symptoms:
Devices that cannot be used as datastores for virtual machines are appearing under Storage Adapters.
From an SSH session, running the command esxcfg-scsidevs -l produces output similar to:
Local USB CD-ROM (Virtual CDROM)
Local USB Direct-Access (Virtual Floppy)
Local USB Direct-Access (MAS001)
Local USB Direct-Access (SECUPD)
The vSphere Client shows multiple devices in addition to the standard devices used as storage (such as the local hard disk or SAN storage). For example: