ESXi 5.1: Stuck on running usbarbitrator start

Boot took a very long time and was stucked on:

running usbarbitrator start

Looking for a solution I stepped into this KB: Accessing USB storage and other USB devices from the service console
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1023976

Previous KB states that this issue is due to USB Arbitrator service which manages USB passthrough. This service does not support simultaneous usb connections both from usb devices and from usb service console. 

After host booted up (it took almost half an hour) login to ESXi console and diasble usb arbitrator service autostart on next reboot

chkconfig usbarbitrator off

KB suggest to reboot the host, actually for me once booted up host it worked fine, so if you need to disable usb arbitrator service without rebooting

service usbarbitrator stop



To verify the run this command


~ # chkconfig --list | grep -i usb

usbarbitrator  off

http://hostilecoding.blogspot.com/2013/02/esxi-51-stuck-on-running-usbarbitrator.html