How to access the data from a Guest OS from Datastore?

[johnabraham]

Hi friends

I want to access around 20GB of a directory from RHEL5 Guest. If i upload the data to the datastore there is no such way like share data from a datastore to VM.

so how can i share such files or folders?

any suggestion would be grateful.

thanks

[Linjo]

You could write the data to an iso-file and mount that to the VM.

Another alternative is to setup a simple nfs-server and mount that.

// Linjo

[tova]

Hi John,

it depend... If you need just access/copy data (saved on datastore) from linux (virtual) machine, the easyest way is enable SSH on ESXi server and use scp from target machine:

scp root@ESXi_IP_address:/vmfs/volumes/storage_name/your_data /path_where_to_copy

If You need to share data, is is possible to mount this data over SCP, but I think, that this is not good idea.

T.

[nielse]

The best solution is to setup NFS or SMB on that specific server. You could upload it to the datastore and use SCP getting it from the ESXi server but I wouldn't advise this.