The latest VMware Tools can always be accessed at. I covered this in my previous post Silent Install VMware Tools. Download VMware Toolsįirst we need to download the latest VMware Tools. This post was written using Workstation v16.1.2, VMware Tools 11.3.0 and the guest OS was Windows Server 2022. In this post I will detail how to keep Tools up to date in a Workstation installation. There are various ways you can deploy and manage Tools on a vSphere installation but it is a manual process in Workstation.īy manual process I mean to update on Workstation you would have to mount the new Tools ISO to the VM and kick off an installation inside the OS. VMware recommended keeping the VMware tools updated to date to avoid VM crashes.Traditionally VMware Tools was tied to a release of ESXi but that has changed where they are released on a regular cadence. You can download the files and install the VMtools in a few minutes. For windows, you will get a single EXE file. You can get the repodata file for RedHat Linux since its supports YUM. If it is the 64-bit operating system, then select X86_64, and the 32-bit operating system chooses i386 or x86. Navigate to the Guest operating system architecture. Select the Guest operating system type and the version here. Here I have just highlighted RedHat Linux-supported version on VMware ESXi 5.5 u1. Here you have all the ESXi 5.5 update 1 supported guest operating systems VMwaretools directory. Just scroll down and select if you are using ESXi 5.5 update 1. Open the URL in the browser and select the appropriate ESXi version. Here I would like to share some of the screenshots to select the correct VMware guest tools for specific ESXi versions.ġ. VMware Offers to download the Guest operating system’s VMware tools on the portal VMware tools are a very important element to working guest operating systems properly without any performance issues. In this support model, you need the VMware team’s help to attach the VMware tools ISO on the guest operating system to install the VMware tools. In most organizations, there will be a dedicated VMware support team and where the guest operating will be managed by the windows or Linux/Solaris team according to the operating system model. How to download the VMware tools manually from the VMware website ?.
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