ESXi and droboPro USB nas

[f1y]

I have a USB nas plugged into an ESXi box. I can add it as a usb device on a VM but it doesn't show on the VM in device manager or show up as a usb drive.

Is there someone to connect that nas from the HOST to a VM?

I did this:
http://vstorage.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/usb-passthrough-in-vsphere-4-1/

which works, it sees the DroboPro device, but show in windows.

Im on vsphere 4.1 VM is a server 2008 box

 

[CEpeep]

ESXi cannot mount locally attached USB storage devices. (Except vfat ones.) You can attach it to a Linux VM and share it over NFS though.

 

[f1y]

NOPE CEpeep, took about 20minutes after mounting it but the NAS came up and the drobo app sees it fine.

makes snapshots easier.