Tools and utilities is available on ESXi, – busybox executable
~ # /usr/lib/vmware/busybox/bin/busybox --list [ [[ addgroup adduser ash awk basename cat chgrp chmod chown chvt cksum clear cp crond cut date dd delgroup deluser diff dirname dnsdomainname du echo egrep eject env expr false fdisk fgrep find getty grep groups gunzip gzip halt head hexdump hostname inetd init kill ln logger login ls lzop lzopcat md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mktemp more mv nohup nslookup od passwd poweroff printf readlink reboot reset resize rm rmdir sed seq setsid sh sha1sum sha256sum sha512sum sleep sort stat stty sum sync tail tar tee test time timeout touch true uname uniq unlzop unzip usleep vi watch wc wget which who xargs zcat
How to wget from a ISO source:
# cd /vmfs/volumes/datastore_name_here
Load 2012 into the data store
# wget cd http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/6/2/A/62A76ABB-9990-4EFC-A4FE-C7D698DAEB96/9600.17050.WINBLUE_REFRESH.140317-1640_X64FRE_SERVER_EVAL_EN-US-IR3_SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV9.ISO