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I needed to have a local mirror of VMware software, and logging into my.vmware.com, downloading, and then uploading was becoming tiresome. I tried the VMware software solution, but: 1. Windows only 2. Borke all the time. Then I found this: [Texiwill/aac-lib](https://github.com/Texiwill/aac-lib) It needs several packages pre-installed, but it mostly takes care of everything, as of now, it is running on a CentOS machine, the following script is running via cron daily, you will need to git pull acc-lib first. ``` #!/bin/bash # _USERNAME="my vmware account" _PASSWORD="my vmware password" cd ~aac-lib/vms git pull for _REPO in $(cat ~/vmware-repos.txt) do ./vsm.sh -c -y -nc --symlink --fav $_REPO -u $_USERNAME -p $_PASSWORD done ``` Content of the vmware-repos.txt are similar to this, if you run vsm.sh you will understand the naming convention ``` Datacenter_Cloud_Infrastructure_VMware_Tools_12_x_VMware_Tools Datacenter_Cloud_Infrastructure_VMware_vSphere_8_0_Enterprise_Plus Infrastructure_Operations_Management_VMware_vRealize_Log_Insight_8_8 ``` And here is a sample .vsmrc to get you started, I put everything in /data, which is a separate partition of about 4TB at the moment: ``` repo='/data/vmware-content' cdir='/data/vmwarevsmxml' symlink=1 ``` I then export the vmware-content directory via a web server, just a nginx with FancyIndexing enabled, and also via NFS and FTP. If you need more details, ask away. I have been using this for a couple of years now, it rarely fails me.

Hi, ExVMW here, just creating this as a place holder in case it is needed I will be happy to hand it over to any mods from r/vmware