[vmware] How to get a vm image from Esxi datastore directly

1. The datastore default path is  Esxi Server url with subfolder “folder"

ie.    https://[IP]/folder   with your Esxi username and password

 

2. you can use curl to download vm  file directly

 

curl -u [User]:[PWD] -k https://[ESXI]/folder/[VMimage]   -O