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To copy files to and from VMFS one can use winscp, may have to open firewall ports.
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To copy files to and from VMFS one can use winscp, may have to open firewall ports.

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Hi<br />
Is it possible to make a folder stored in the ESXi datastore accessible from windows machines, so that they can map the drive?<br />
I understand both systems have different file systems, Windows uses NTFS and ESXi uses VMFS but can this somehow be done?<br />
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Thanx!!
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Hi
Is it possible to make a folder stored in the ESXi datastore accessible from windows machines, so that they can map the drive?
I understand both systems have different file systems, Windows uses NTFS and ESXi uses VMFS but can this somehow be done?

Thanx!!

How to share a datastore folder to windows machines

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.