My Backup solutions require Windows 2003 and the Belkin FL5009 only works with Windows XP, Vista, or 7, which I found very frustrating until I discovered this post, “Setting up USB in VMware ESX and ESXi”. With only a few tweaks I was able to get the Belkin FL5009 to work as a service. The first tweak I did, was to upgrade my Windows 2003 template to Virtual Hardware version 7, which required a VMware Tools Upgrade to be done first. Once that was completed, I also added a USB device to the VM.