Lacie Vmware Best Guide

LaCie (now part of Seagate’s premium brand) makes rugged, fast, beautiful external drives. A video editor or developer might think: “I’ll run my VMware VMs off this LaCie 4TB RAID over Thunderbolt — it’s faster than my internal SSD.”

In practice, LaCie is singled out because:

Connecting a LaCie Portable SSD directly to a guest Virtual Machine (VM) bypasses the host operating system's filesystem entirely. LaCie d2 Professional User Manual - Getting Connected

For users running VMware Workstation on a laptop or workstation, LaCie drives are much easier to manage.

Initially, it works. Then the nightmare begins.

If you are plugging a LaCie drive into an ESXi host via USB, you have two main options:

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By following this guide, you should be able to integrate your LaCie storage solution with your VMware environment, enabling shared storage for your virtual machines and enhancing your virtual infrastructure's scalability, flexibility, and data protection.

“External USB/Thunderbolt drives are not recommended for production VMs. Use internal SATA/NVMe or enterprise SAN.”