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ESX Server 3.5 just wouldn’t install from my SATA DVD drive cause my motherboard doesn’t have a standard controller known to ESX. I bypassed this by installing ESX 3.5 from a temporary web server.
Luckily, a Macbook can whip up a web server in a few clicks.
Just go to System Preferences – Sharing, and check off “Web Sharing”
In your /Users/username/Sites folder, copy the VMware folder from the ESX Server 3.5 CD.
When you boot from the ESX 3.5 Server CD, choose HTTP install and enter in the IP of your Mac and the folder. In my case, http://192.168.1.100/~ken is inputted as the following.
November 11, 2008
* Be sure to enable SSH in ESXi first.
Unlike Windows, the Mac doesn’t really have a nice SCP client like WinSCP. So we are left with the commandline or Fugu.
For those afraid of the unix command line, you can also use Fugu to scp files to and from the ESXi server.
Use the SCP option in the menu
Enter the appropriate details
Fugu isn’t as scary as the unix prompt and still very useful.
November 9, 2008
Here’s how you copy files to the datastore on your ESXi server from a Mac.
Let’s say you want to copy an ISO file to your datastore on your ESXi server so you can install an OS with it.
Open up a Terminal window and type:
scp WinXP.iso root@192.168.1.33:/vmfs/volumes/vmstore/ISO
This will do just that. I average about 4MB/s writing to the datastore with my Macbook’s 100Mbit connection.
To do the reverse and copy a file to your Mac, you type:
scp root@192.168.1.33:/vmfs/volumes/vmstore/ISO/filename.iso /Users/name/Desktop
You obviously have to make the necesary changes to your IP address and datastore name.
November 9, 2008