The FastSCP is useful for server to server file copies initiated by a Windows desktop user. It dynamically creates a user and password combination ob both systems and then initiates an SCP session between the hosts using it. Once it completes or fails, the accounts are deleted.

Thank you for this article, this makes using ssh key pairs a little easier to swallow for automated shuffling of files through cron.

Gregory Smith
greg@virtualsmith.net

Isn’t esxupdate just for updating ESX, I was referring to YUM for installing packages like RSYNC for instance.

Thanks,

Ron

I’ve heard about FastSCP but haven’t used it myself yet. To be honest, I haven’t had a great need to use it–my SCP/SFTP client is great and the throughput rocks.

As for Yum, you won’t use that to patch ESX–it’s not allowed. You must use esxupdate. I’ll see if I can’t get something up about esxupdate soon. Thanks for reading!

As a Windows Active Directory Admin who has been slowly learning vmware over the past few years, i recently found fastscp 2.0 from veeam which is a windows app aimed squarely at ESX.

The program has made things so much easier to transfer files on and off the esx boxes I administer, and the other ones that I interact with. Best of all it’s free.

As an aside it would be tremendously helful if you did a walk through of how to configure YUM to allow patching, and downloading. If you have already written something on this I apologize for missing it and would enjoy a link to the article.

Thanks

Ron