There does not appear to be a way to download an entire folder from the vSphere Web Client or from the Embedded Host UI fling whether or not the Client Integration Plug-in is installed.
Here's how to tell if the Client Integration Plug-in is active. Note that it can be installed but not active, depending on whether it's being blocked by your browser and other factors. It's one of the things about the Web Client that drives people mad! I have to say though that I'm confused about your screenshot I apologize in advance for my ignorance.
Two of those, for example, are supporting OVF deployments and allowing standalone console sessions not browser embedded. I think the original function of the Plug-in, however, was allowing you to use your currently logged in Windows credentials to log into the Web Client. If you add your Windows domain as an identity source in the Web Client, you can connect using Windows credentials. In our example, copying data to the SMB share will be explained. First, create a directory to be used as the mount point.
Then make sure that the necessary files have been copied, and check the contents of your SMB share. As you can see on the screenshot above, the bootmgr file used in this example has been copied successfully. Now you know the first method of copying the contents of the VMDK file to another location when an operating system installed on a VM cannot boot.
This method is similar to the previous one, but a VMDK virtual disk should be attached to an existing virtual machine that has a functioning operating system. Keep in mind that the functioning operating system on the first healthy VM must be compatible with file systems used on a virtual disk of the second VM that has a non-bootable operating system a VM whose VMDK file you want to attach as an additional virtual disk to extract files.
Power off the VM that uses a virtual disk from which files you want to extract. Find this virtual disk in the ESXi datastore. Copy the virtual disk to another directory on the same datastore or another datastore to prevent an error caused by virtual disk lock. The ESXi host is managed by vCenter. If you use a standalone ESXi host without vCenter, you can use the logics explained in this example — the differences are only in the user interface.
Select destination and hit the Copy button to confirm. In the opened window, select the destination. You can copy the VMDK file to some location on the same datastore or to another datastore. Both vmdk and - flat. A virtual disk can be attached to this healthy VM while the VM is running. Select the copy of your VMDK file that you have made previously. In the current example, the copy of Win-test2.
Power on the healthy VM to which you have attached the virtual disk you are interested in, if the VM has not been powered on yet. A virtual disk is added on the fly for a running Windows Server VM. By default, the new attached disk is offline. Right click the disk and hit Online.
A disk letter should be assigned automatically for partitions on the added disk. If a disk letter has not been assigned for a partition, right click the partition and hit Change Drive Letter and Paths. This method can be used when there is no free disk space on the ESXi datastore to copy a virtual disk, for example. As you recall, a virtual disk of the ESXi format consists of vmdk and -flat.
Be aware that when you download a thin provisioned virtual disk from an ESXi datastore that has the VMFS file system to your computer, you will get a lightweight vmdk file and a -flat.
This is because thin provisioning can be considered as a VMFS file system feature. The size of the thin provisioned virtual disk on the VMFS datastore is about 2GB now see the screenshot above and the size of the same disk downloaded to a workstation machine is about 8GB see the screenshot below.
Unzip the two files from the archive. By default, the files are extracted to the Win-test2. For performing the next step, you should have a healthy VM with a functional operating system on your machine with VMware Workstation of Player installed.
That's easy since my vCenter is usually a Windows server, so any complex download authentication methods are easy to deal with. ISO file you need to a location that does not require an https download; http or normal ftp. Log into your ESXi host, drill into your datastore, and do a filecopy using a Commander style, or optionally a Windows Explorer style interface.
From the ESXi shell :. Step 1 Connect to your server and click on the Storage option on the main screen. Step 2 Click the Datastore Browser that you see on the right. Step 3 Once you have opened the Datastore Browser , click on the Upload button as you see in the image below. Definitely another option.
Thanks for the information. This is exactly the problem that i was trying to solve. But i wanted some help regarding the use of the AcquireGenericServiceTicket method. While i was able to download the file for the ESX host version 5. Is this method specific to any host version or we need to enable anything on the esx host for this to work. Thanks for the reply. So it should work on all the 5. But it seems that this api is not working on the 5.
It always fails when trying to acquire the ticket. Below is the error that i get from the logs. Are we required to configure any settings on the ESX host for this to work? I don't have a 5. Have you had any luck getting this working with 5. I have access to a 5. With 5.
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