I'm sure this topic has been hashed out before, but I'm stumped.
My environment is the Free VMware vSphere 6.7 ESXi; a VM with Windows Server 2016; an attached external USB Passport 500GB drive to the ESXi Host.
My goal is to see the USB drive within Windows Server 2016, so I can copy over files.
The latest rabbit trail, where I understood that I needed to add the external drive via configuring the PCI card with USB:
Baremetal server is Dell R630
PCI Card with USB is: C610/X99 Series Chipset USB Enhanced Host Controller 1 & 2 (I figured out how to enable passthrough and restarted host)
Issue is that after I select the USB within PCI Card, I get "Failed to reconfigure virtual machine <servername>. PCI passthrough devices cannot be added when Nested Hardware-Assisted Virtualization is enabled."
I cannot uncheck the option within Edit Settings of the VM for Hardware virtualization.
Question: I think I can uncheck the Hardware virtualization during VM creation. Is this OK to do, considering I may need to in order to access an external USB drive?
Appreciate any help and guidance.
Paul