Connecting USB Portable Drives to OneController

For backing up and restoring configurations/logs (see Backing Up Configurations and Logs and Restoring Configurations), you may want to use an external, portable USB drive. To use a USB portable drive, you must mount it first so that OneController recognizes it.

USB requirements:

USB drive must be formatted as File Allocation Table (FAT).
All desired files must be in the top level directory.
USB v2.0 (if USB v3.0, it must be backward compatible).

To enable use of a USB drive:

Insert a USB drive into:
- OneC-A-600: USB ports on front or back panel. Only one USB drive can be inserted at a time.
- OneC-V: USB port on ESXi host hardware.
1. For the OneC-V, in the VMware vSphere client in the left pane, right-click the OneController virtual machine, and click Edit Settings(see the following figure).
  vSphere Client—Edit Settings
  
  The Virtual Machine Properties dialog box appears (see the following figure).
  vSphere Client—Virtual Machine Properties Dialog Box
2. Click the Hardware tab.
3. Click Add. The Add Hardware dialog box appears (see the following figure).
  Add Hardware Dialog Box
4. Click USB controller, and then click Next. The Add Hardware—Select USB Device dialog box appears (see the following figure).
  Add Hardware—Select USB Device Dialog Box
5. Select the USB device in the list, and then click Next. The Add Hardware—Ready to Complete dialog box appears (see the following figure).
  Add Hardware—Ready to Complete Dialog Box
6. Click Finish. The USB device appears in the Virtual Machine Properties dialog box (see the following figure).
  Virtual Machine Properties Dialog Box
7. Click OK.
On the left navigation bar, click System Configuration, and then, on the menu bar, click Maintenance. The Maintenance System screen appears (see the following figure).
Maintenance—System Screen
Click Mount. The USB device's status information and list of files appears (see the following figure).
Maintenance—System, Mount USB Results Screen