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i have a new ESXI with no guests and no iso's in the datastore or anywhere on the ESXi , i have the iso on the win 7 laptop and want to transfer the iso directly to th esxi and have it mountable , what is the best way 
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i have a new ESXI with no guests and no iso's in the datastore or anywhere on the ESXi , i have the iso on the win 7 laptop and want to transfer the iso directly to th esxi and have it mountable , what is the best way 

what is the easiest way to copy ISO to a VMWARE EXSi 4.0 server from a windows latop?

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