The Advisers Group

As a link from ESXi homepage.

1. Open a web browser and type in the IP Address or DNS name.
2. On the right hand side select "Browse datastores in this host's inventory"
3. Login if prompted
4. Select the name of the datastore you wish to access
5. Access your files.

By IP Address or DNS and add the datastore URL.

Example: https://esxi.mycoolname.com/folder?dsName=datastore1
Make sure to substitute your ESXi server’s IP address or hostname, and the name of your datastore with what I have listed here. You can download files via web browser.

Why would you want to do this?

Browsing the datastore from the web will allow you to download files from the ESXi Server for backup purposes. I store all of my ISO (CD-ROM) images on my ESXi Server. If I need to put the ISO image on a physical CD I can download the image to my local PC and the write it to a CD-ROM.