How To Upload Files Into Datastore
Posted by jlchannel - on May 12th, 2009 in Tips, vSphere | 7 Comments »
A datastore is platform-independent and host-independent and it can reside on the local disk of an VMware ESX/vSphere Server, or they could be on a storage area network (SAN). Therefore, datastores do not change when the virtual machines they contain are moved between hosts. The scope of a datastore is a datacenter; the datastore is uniquely named within the datacenter. They can be accessed by either the VMware Infrastructure Client/vCenter client or by the Web interface.
For some reason, you may need upload some of your ISO, VMDK and etc into your datastores. Here I would like to share how to do it easily.
How to upload files into datastore
1. Login to vCenter
2. Select your VMware host
3. Click “Configuration”
4. Click “Storage”
5. Look at right hand side datastore
6. Right click one of the datastore LUN and click Browse Datastore….
7. Click on the icon selected as picture below
8. Here you can continue with upload files into your datastores.
9. Congratulations! You’re done!
7 Responses
Hi.
I has tried to do exactly as you has discriped.
But, the upload of a host approx 26 GB takes 2,2 days
to upload (server2003Enterprice).
Many times it´s broke after one hous with I/O error
Can you help me on this one.?
Thanks anyway
Are you trying to upload the entire image of the VM file to the ESX host? If yes, you should try to use the VMware converter to import it to the dedicated ESX host
Thanks for the quick reply i have recieved.
This is what i have done:
Created VM on exsi 4.1 freeware
Windows Server 2003 enterprice
Size in this are right now 26 GB
I used the propertise, storage download tool and placed the vm on local diskstorage. This took app. 45 min.
now updated my root server the newest version of Vsphere4.1
Now i try to put back (upload) my VM (server 2003 Ep), when dooing this the upload speed are 130 kb (using debug tool), and time of upload are now app. 8000 hours.
Why are the upload so much longer, than the download to local storage.
I have now tried for 3 days to upload without luck, because when the software being uploaded, it often goes into I/O error before finishing.
i Hope you cn help me, i may be wrong on how to do it correctly. I still have app. 12 vm to opload, ex. WSUS Server and Symantec antivirusserver. app.250 gb ( and calculation says several mounth for upload
Hope you can help me……………………………..
Let’s assume all the vm you created are currently still on the ESXi host as you mentioned, you can easily imported the VM to another ESX host using VMware Converter without having to download and re-upload. In term of doing this, you must have a reliable and high speed network running on gigabits environment. The Converter tools will help you to perform the task directly. you can easily perform this migration either online of offline. Either way will work.
no, the servers (Vm´s) are now on a local psykcial running Server 2003 Std. Here are one folder for each vm, and i try to upload the folder to esxi server through the Vsphere client, bye UPLOAD FOLDER.
I dont know how to fill out what you are explaning.
My hardware is.
1 Intel server running Vsphere 4.1, This is here i try to upload “folder” to datastorage, running on RAID1 and 1000mb switch
1 stationary server running Server 2003 Std. Here are 7 pcs. 1.5 tb disc locally placed.
On this server i have vsphere 4.1 client loaded, and through this I select : Properties, storage, upload folder to datastorage, select one 1 partition RAID 1 disc, and begins the upload.
Is this the correct way og are there any other and better way to do the upload. I have found the software (converter) and tried to find a way upload, but are stuck on that i cant fint the vsphere host ip 10.0.0.11, nothing are displayed.
Sorry but i need help, can you provide me with a solution.
As I had mentioned earlier, please download the vmware converter standalone edition from vwmare website and use the wizard to import the virtual machine to the targeted ESX 4.1 new host. This method is more consistent and do not require you to upload huge file on that, basically the process is to recognize the current vm you have and rebuild a new 1 with everything same in the ESX host directly.
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