I'd like to download a large OS install ISO directly to my datastore. I used to be able to SSH to the ESXi terminal and use wget
to download large files directly to the datastore, but it seems that wget
can't handle https
links anymore (wget: not an http or ftp url
).
I'm wondering how others handle this. I know I can download the file to my laptop and use the datastore browser to upload it, but that's a two-step process (not to mention horribly inefficient when I'm offsite and accessing ESX through a VPN).
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Best Answer
Around ESXi 6.7, the embedded busybox wget finally started to support https.
So finally, you can do https downloads in ESXi.
Yay!
This is from ESXi 6.7 Update 2.
Whereas 6.5U2 still did not support it (I think ESXi 6.7 also did not, but I do not have a box to this this on any more):