I sure hope not. Using a passthrough USB card is really the only way you can have a VM take a backup to a USB hard drive. The throughput penalty for having the USB hard drive managed by ESXi and connected as a regular USB device makes it unfeasable to transfer large quantities of data. Now, if they fixed that problem this wouldn't be quite as big an issue. If they decide not to fix it I'm stuck on version 5.0 then, and at that point there would be no need to continue paying maintenance.
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