Uploading an ISO in vSphere Client

On http://communities.vmware.com/thread/258207, RParker says:

"But you shouldn't be uploading ISO to the datastore anyway, users can mount ISO from their client, or you can create an NFS store, and connect your ESX hosts to it."

But...

Select your host.
Click on the "Storage Views" tab (grey tab on the far right at the top)
Click on a Datastore in the list.
In the explorer pane list on the left you will get a list of the datastores.
Right Click on the one that you want, and click "Browse Datastore..."
In here you can create new folders, upload new files & delete files from disk.

Then you can connect to them as if they're a DVD drive.

Entry for local iso in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb file:///mnt/ubuntu-iso jaunty main restricted

(This was an Ubuntu BSD box and the iso was mounted under /mnt/ubuntu-iso)

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-35807.html