Copying VMDK’s onto ESXi local disk

Once you have added you USB controller to the VM you need to add a device separately.

Go to Edit virtual machine settings and click Add... then choose USB device and click Next> you should get a list of available devices to choose from. Select the one you want and click Next>then Finish.

Narrowly speaking, at this time mounting the same NTFS-formatted partition on multiple servers is not supported. The only exception to this is when the NTFS partition is hosting HyperV virtual disks, which is not what you're doing. The problem comes down to how to mediate locking. The HyperV MSCS role includes a layer for doing it, essentially by electing a single MSCS node to be the metadata server and all metadata updates are processed through that node.

Looking at your problem, need the ability to access the same data-store of media files from multiple servers, it looks like a file-level sharing solution will fit your needs such as a dedicated Windows server for storage. If the web-servers and the media-store are all in the same AD Domain it is perfectly possible to configure the web-services to have access to the file-store over the network.