We use this software in our main R&D network and have several dongles, scanners and printers attached. You need a dedicated or semi-dedicated workstation or server with the USB over Network software installed on it and the USB devices attached to it.
If you need to attach a dozen of them like I have to do for R&D purposes then you need this software. I use one of them in my DMZ environment where I only need to have a single dongle attached. So if your need is just to attach a single USB dongle to your ESX VM then the Anywhere USB device would be my first choice. The documentation that comes with them makes it pretty clear that they were originally designed for Point Of Sale (POS) applications with thin clients. Hence, in order to access WiFi using Raspberry Pi 2, we need to use an external adapter like a WiFi Dongle. This article shows you the steps to do this. Setting up WiFi on Raspberry Pi 2 is different from setting up on Raspberry Pi 3 as Raspberry Pi 2 or earlier models doesn’t have on board WiFi Adapter like Raspberry Pi 3 does. This set up allows you to share your 3G/4G LTE USB Dongle connection across your devices. This is the most efficient way to share your 3G/4G LTE USB Dongle connection to your other WiFi-capable devices.
If your short on IPs this may not be a good solution.ī) Each Anywhere USB device can only be attached to a single VM, you can attach 5 USB devices to that single VM though.ĭ) Mine only came with a 120V AC adapter. How to share a 3G / 4G LTE USB Dongle connection to my other Wi-Fi devices. We have some of the Anywhere USB devices and while they do work great and are seemingly supported by VMware (See this article) they have definite limitations that may not work for everyone.Ī) Each Anywhere USB device requires a static IP. ESX itself does not have the capability to virtualize USB connections.