To upload the files, double click or browse your data store and use the upload button for files or folders and select the files to upload.....pretty easy.

The deployment of images (without virtual centre) is pretty easy as well. No less difficult that using the net new commands I would guess..

Cheers

Thanks for reading, stufox. Hadn't heard from you in a while. Yes, some of these commands have been around for a while but how often do real admins use them? I guess that's something that neither of us can answer since neither of us are "real admins" in corporate datacenters. I do setup and use a lot (over 10) different VMs on a weekly basis during my testing of various products and troubleshooting stuff and I can count on one hand how much I've used netsh in the past year (all of those instances were with Server Core). Same thing with iscsicli (an ugly command). Most of the time I chose the GUI to set all of that stuff up. I also use Sysprep and unattanded installs a lot - neither of which use these commands. Without Google or a book nearby I wouldn't have a clue how to use some of these. I haven't taken the MCSE tests in a while (since I got 2003 cert) but pretty sure these commands aren't even on there. I think Jame's O'Neil even agrees on this one in his blog: http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2008/09/28/server-core-too-dry-and-crunchy.aspx.

So here's the question to all the other readers that are admins in real datacenters (large or small) - how much do you use these commands in your work or do you even know them at all?

Setting the Record Straight One Post at a Time ... That's the tagline of the Virtual Reality VMWare blog,

I never use these commands, I am only using most of them now because I am setting up a 2008 Core Server and attempting to implement Hyper-V etc.

Those command lines are effectively new to many of us Stu.   Since we don't deal with them on a daily basis since Windows is effectively GUI based.  Its nice that Server Core is bringing them to the surface.

One counter point about "How do I copy the ISOs over?"

With ESXi since I'm running a real enterprise shop and all, I keep all of my ISOs in a central location and run them from there.   So from VMware I just mount the location as a datastore (NFS likely in this case).   I'd expect I'd do the same for Hyper-V / Server Core / Server 2008 (SMB likely here then).  Its silly to copy ISOs around since then I have to manage them and clean them up and update them and do all that fun stuff.  That just doesn't make sense.  

If I'm going to memorize a lot of CLI and get certified, you can bet it will be for the CCIE and not the MCSE (this cert has been retired/replaced BTW by the MCITP).  Still contemplating whether or not I will certify on 2008.  When I was MCSE'ing on 2003 I promised myself it would be the last round.

So, maybe you've heard of NFS or VMFS. Mounting one of those shared filesystems is as easy as 1 2 3. Copying to VMFS -> WinSCP of FastSCP

Prepped GoldImages? Copy Sysprep to VirtualCenter(WINDOWS) and create a template, easy as 1 2 3 again.

Sorry, but I hardly see the point you are trying to bring across.

Duncan - Yellow-Bricks.com