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This is the point where the update routine might not work. This always provides the path to get back in case new features or other changes are impacting or interfering with the current vSphere deployment. Actually the VMware VCSA can be updated in two ways: manually by providing access to the patch file downloaded as an ISO or automatically by letting the appliance to connect to the internet and check and download the necessary files from an online VMware official repository.īefore proceeding it is always good idea to run a backup before applying any changes or upgrade. The next steps quickly show how to solve this.įrom the the VMware VCSA update section of the appliance it might show little or not information at all about the latest cumulative updates. This is exactly the reason why in certain cases the VMware VCSA update is not working through the builtin interface. This can be easily resolved in two ways: either by downloading the latest cumulative patches and mounting them to the VCSA appliance or even more conveniently make sure the URL path where to check and download these patches is correct. In fact for some of the VMware VCSA 6.7 releases the automatic check against online repositories might not work. Second, I discussed this issue with William Lam on Slack and he suggested adding the following additional configuration to the VM: quick article covers the steps on how to quickly fix the VMware VCSA update check when using the online repositories. You might need to use the below instead, depending on the type of device you are trying to passthrough: = "TRUE" USB Quirks Solution Allow CCIDįirst, the Virtual Machine configuration needs the following advanced setting applied: = TRUE

In this case, the USB device was a USB Smart Card Reader, the ones you use for banking authentication. However, when the VM was powered on, the USB device was removed from the VM automatically.

When the USB device was plugged into a USB port on a vSphere 6.5 host, the device was available in the vSphere client to add to the Guest VM (Edit Settings > Add Device > USB Device) Recently I was asked to look into an issue with passing USB devices from an ESXi host to a Guest Virtual Machine running Windows.