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I have a couple of newly installed ESXi 5.1 hosts at a remote location: <br />
no VMs in them yet.<br />
<br />
I rarely get a chance to go to that remote location, so tomorrow,<br />
I'm going to bring an MS SQL 2012 DVD there : this DVD is an<br />
MS SQL 2012 setup DVD (which was burnt from an iso image).<br />
<br />
Q1:<br />
what are the commands to mount (if any) the DVD, then copy<br />
out it's contents to a VMFS folder in ESXi<br />
<br />
Q2:<br />
Then next week when VMs are up, how can the VMs copy out<br />
the SQL files into the VMs (they're Windows 2008) c: or d:<br />
drive?<br />
<br />
I can't copy remotely as the WAN link speed is only about 128kbps<br />
&amp;&nbsp;it can take a whole day to copy more than 3GB of files across.<br />
Besides, when I tried copying in the past, the link often drop
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I have a couple of newly installed ESXi 5.1 hosts at a remote location: 
no VMs in them yet.

I rarely get a chance to go to that remote location, so tomorrow,
I'm going to bring an MS SQL 2012 DVD there : this DVD is an
MS SQL 2012 setup DVD (which was burnt from an iso image).

Q1:
what are the commands to mount (if any) the DVD, then copy
out it's contents to a VMFS folder in ESXi

Q2:
Then next week when VMs are up, how can the VMs copy out
the SQL files into the VMs (they're Windows 2008) c: or d:
drive?

I can't copy remotely as the WAN link speed is only about 128kbps
& it can take a whole day to copy more than 3GB of files across.
Besides, when I tried copying in the past, the link often drop

Transfer files from ESXi to a VM (Windows)

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.

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Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.