the reference for ftp and ssh is:

#ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd
ssh stream tcp nowait root /sbin/dropbearmulti dropbear ++min=0,swap,group=shell -i

ssh no have problem, ftp not work the reason is /usr/sbin/tcpd don't exist in the esxi system.

Not yet. You can hot clone them, but other than that your backup solutions for ESX 3i are limited..

You can use VCB but that requires a vCenter to work.

This may not be an option, but you can use WinSCP using the SSH protocol to get VM's off your box. That is what I'm doing for single servers.

-JD-

Ok,

all of the existing possibilites do not offer an adequate speed for transferring files between ESXi and other hosts. 7-8 MB was the fastest I could achieve and so I complied proftpd for ESX 3.5 U3. You can download a small packet at this location (sorry for the external link). You will find the file for the next few weeks and the installation instructions are as follows.

• Enable SSH for console access to your ESXi. Infos are floating around the web
• Extract the package
• Copy proftpd to /sbin
• Copy tcpd to /sbin
• Copy proftpd.conf to /etc and adapt it to your needs. The provided file should work fine.
• Edit /etc/inetd.conf according to the included /etc/inetd (include line for ftp)
• Find inetd process id by "ps | grep inetd"
• Send reload to inetd by "kill -HUP <inetd_pid>

Afterwards you should be able to logon to your ESXi via FTP as user root and enjoy uploading/downloading at speeds of 30MB/sec and up using GBit interfaces. Maybe an ESXi fan can offer a better mirror for this file for other users. ATTENTION! I take no responsibility for any damages to your servers. Take care for the growth of log files under /var/run and /var/log!

Best regards.

I can provide a download for this. As soon as I get the file I will post a link. If it is amall enough it should be post-able here.

Never mind I figured it out! I didnt put proftpd in the correct location, AND I had to change the permissions to ALL files that I copied over to include execute permissions, once I did this, restarted the process, I was able to log in. I am going to test some transfers now.