Transfering files from client to server VM

[galapogos]

Hi,

I have Vsphere running on a client desktop that's manager a few VMs on an ESXi server. I'm trying to transfer files from the client to the server. Currently I'm doing it via USB stick, physically plugging it into the server and adding the USB device to the VM that I'm trying to transfer to. Is there a simpler way that doesn't require me having physical access to the server? Something like shared folders for VM Workstation perhaps?

Thanks.

[JarryG]

You can simply use datastore-browser, but it is quite slow. I have both server and my client-workstation on the same gigabit-lan segment, and I get hardly more than a few MB/s. Unsuitable for copying big files i.e. cd/dvd iso-mages.You can get a little higher speed with nfs. Set-up nfs server on your client, and attach it to esxi-server as network storage...

[galapogos]

Hi,

I'm trying to use datastore browser but it doesn't seem to list the file system for the VM. When I browse the the specific VM, I see the vmx/vmdk/log files, but not the actual NTFS file system that I wish to access. How do I access the VM file system?

Thanks!

[Virtualinfra]

if the VMs are  accessible over network take a RDP for windows and winscp for linux, you can take remote connection map your drives and copy.

If not, see your client desktop were your run vmware workstation is accessible via network, take a remote connection to the client desktop and from there take rdp or winscp to VM running on workstation and copy files. this way you can avoid phsyical touches.