Download file esxi ssh

Learn more. Download big files from ESXi? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 6 months ago. Active 9 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 2k times. The guest vm is off.

What could be the problem. How to do this? Improve this question. B14D3 B14D3 5, 12 12 gold badges 55 55 silver badges 82 82 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. As a side effect, you will have a backup on the NFS host. Improve this answer. Zrin Zrin 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Personally I would recommend running the machines from NFS unless the disk latency gets to be a problem.

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However, sometimes you will need to download a file from SSH to your local desktop, such as if you are using one of our Linux VPS servers. The two environments are too far apart.

First, we have a file on the remote server called filetodownload. This will give you the folder name, like this:. Replace the sections in bold with the information you gathered in step 1. For example, the command used for this example is:. Open up a command line in Windows. Windows 10 already has SCP installed by default.

The color contrasts with the yellow, and syntax highlighting is a nice change from the drab command line. As you can see, you first need to confirm the connection using the RSA fingerprint of the remote server. Replace [UserName] with your own Windows username. Each RSA fingerprint is added on a new line. This allows you to clear them easily by deleting an entire line at once if you ever need to remove an entry. Navigate to the location you specified in your SCP command and the file should be visible.