My test environment uses a whole bunch of VMs running on an ESXi server that share the same USB devices for testing things on the network. Each VM is booted in series, tests run, and then it is shut down.

There are times that the vSphere plugin doesn't shut down VMs correctly (and doesn't fail), which in turn means the USB devices needed for testing aren't available to the next VM. It would be nice to be able to verify the hardware state of a booted VM to see if those devices are really connected to the VM or not.

Likewise, with this volume of VMs, it would be nice to be able to have a job step to attach USB devices to the VM before or after it has been booted. It would make it easier to manage the insane number of VMs I am working with.