vmProtect 8 and vCenter 5.1 - Backing up to external hard drive
Hello.
I was wondering if someone could point me the right direction... Last week I was trying to backup to an external hard drive from vmProtect 8. I plugged the external hard drive in to the host machine and then connect it to the virtual machine. ESXi could see the hard drive but when trying to set up my backups it was unable to detect the external hard drive.
Is this possible? If so, what are the steps to do this. I am hoping that I have missed something.
Thank you for your help.

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Hi Vasily,
Your post is dated 2009-03-30. It's now 2015. Should I conclude that Acronis will never fix this issue?
If so, what external storage does the appliance support?
Thanks,
Tom
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Hi Tom,
2009-03-30 is actually the registration date of my forum account, while the topic was started at much later time :)
This topic is related to specific case when you attach an external USB drive _directly_ to ESXi host machine. And the good news are that we're implementing this feature in the next version of Acronis Backup for VMware (coming later this year). With the new version you will be able to add a USB device to Acronis virtual appliance and map it to external USB drive attached to the ESXi host, thus making it available as backup storage.
Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis Virtualization Program Manager
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