Guys,
I am fairly new to the VMWare environment so apologises in advance for what might seem basic questions.
I want to mount a Windows 2008 ISO file in the VSphere client 4.1.
Now when I googled this it tells me to open a command prompt at the host and use the mount tool.
First question is I see a list of virtual machines built by a previous contractor who got taken of site for reasons which I will not go into.
When I do a right mouse click I see an open console for each virtual machine but what I want to do is mount a windows 2008 ISO file so I can build a new virtual machine.
I see a name and under that an icon called VMCluster and under that 3 servers and then under that all the virtual machines.
What I cant see is an option to go to the command prompt to mount the ISO file.
Can anyone please tellme how to do this ?
Thanks,
Fred
Do you mean that you want to mount the ISO within a VM on a host?
If so, there are multiple ways to do it.
Easiest way to demonstrate would be: right clicking on the VM, select "Open Console", and then in the top bar look for the icon that appears to be a CD. Click on that icon, highlight the CD/DVD Drive, and select "Connect to ISO image on local disk"
An image is attached below to demonstrate.
Do you mean that you want to mount the ISO within a VM on a host?
If so, there are multiple ways to do it.
Easiest way to demonstrate would be: right clicking on the VM, select "Open Console", and then in the top bar look for the icon that appears to be a CD. Click on that icon, highlight the CD/DVD Drive, and select "Connect to ISO image on local disk"
An image is attached below to demonstrate.
Thanks Kuddy your reply was very helpful.
I am slowly getting to grips with ESX VMWare when you power down a virtual machine. Under the CD icon
you get an option to select the host device it refers to
/vmfs/device/cdrom/mpx.vmhba0:c0:t0
Where exactly is this referring to ? is there a white paper that explains.
Thanks,
F