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Query Regarding USB HDD Mapping to Nutanix VM

  • May 26, 2026
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Hello Team,

I have recently deployed a Nutanix solution, and everything is working as expected. I have also deployed a virtual machine with the Veeam Backup solution, which is running successfully.

I have an external USB HDD that I would like to map or make accessible within the VM as a storage. Could you please guide me on how this can be achieved?

Thank you for your assistance.

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JeroenTielen
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  • Vanguard
  • May 26, 2026

That is not possible on a Nutanix HCI cluster. That is just not the way HCI works. 


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Thank you so much, any other possibile way to achieve this.

That is not possible on a Nutanix HCI cluster. That is just not the way HCI works. 

 


JeroenTielen
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  • Vanguard
  • May 26, 2026

Run your backup target somewherw else? Like a nas or aws s3 of azure blob etc etc. 


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Run your backup target somewherw else? Like a nas or aws s3 of azure blob etc etc. 

 

They dont have any additional NAS and its operational technology environment, and running in air gapped network, no possibility of azure. So, I believe there is no such way to backup in External HDD, right?


JeroenTielen
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Offcourse that is possible. But you can’t attach the external usb hdd to a nutanix node and then attach it to a vm. That part is not possible.