Copy file from local datastore to Ubuntu Server VM

[cookieme]

I know how to download files/folders from the local datastore to a Windows VM by using the web access, but I have no idea how to do this from the command line of an Ubuntu VM. Can I use wget?

Thanks

[vmroyale]

Hello.

Use scp:

scp user@esxhost:/tmp/filename /home/username/filename

Good Luck!

[cookieme]

Hello.

Use scp:

scp user@esxhost:/tmp/filename /home/username/filename

Good Luck!

Ah this requires that I use the unsupported console to enable ssh. Out of curiosity is there another way to do it?

Thanks

[sjadapa]

You can use veeam fast scp ( free tool ) to copy files from different hosts and vm.

One of the feature:

Veeam FastSCP uses SSH as a control channel to generate a one-time

username and password for each file transfer session. Veeam FastSCP

does not require putting ESXi into “unsupported” mode or compromise its

security by enabling additional services.

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[vmroyale]

Check out the VMware vSphere CLI.

[cookieme]

Yeah, I'm trying to install the vCLI in my Ubuntu VM so that I can do a few different things, but first I need to get the tgz into the VM. Hence, my question I was thinking of using wget to download it but I can't get a direct download link from vmware.

Thanks

[sjadapa]

You can also use winscp to copy the tgz file to vm

[cookieme]

OK, after about 2 hours I have figured it out. Using wget on the Ubuntu VM I can now download a file using:

wget --http-user=root --http-password=PASS 'http://esxi/folder/'

Maybe useful to someone else.

[lamw]

You can also use VMware VIX to accomplish this task, take a look here for some examples: http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/#vmware_vix

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