This article will explain how to go about installing VMWare Tools for CentOS/Red hat v6 & above. The install can be done via SSH Putty session but the recommended method is doing it via VMware console session and reason being that as it updates drivers that include Network there is a chance you might get disconnected during the process. ###Overview of VMware Tools VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machines guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Without VMware Tools installed in your guest operating system, guest performance lacks important functionality.
I’ve had cause to look for the VMware Tools download a couple of times recently, so thought a quick post was in order to cover where you can download all the VMware Tools ISO images from. Normally VMware Tools will be installed using the vSphere client, or in bulk using Update Manager, however there are occasions where you may want to download a copy of the ISO, either to install an older version of VMtools, or perhaps to look at installing VMtools using a different deployment tool such as SCCM.
Manually Install Vmware Tools Windows
Download VMware vSphere. Run fewer servers and reduce capital and operating costs using VMware vSphere to build a cloud computing infrastructure. Aug 02, 2017 VMware Tools (vmtools) are periodically updated to include improved drivers, bug fixes, and better OS support. With vSphere 6.5, the tools package is now split into two distinct ones, one for Legacy (v10.1) operating systems, some of which are no.
VMware make all the current and past versions of VMware tools available here. When you go to that URL you will see a page listing current and previous ESXi builds:
Clicking on a directory will show you the tools packages available:
As shown above, there are directories for each supported Guest OS, in which you can find the .iso file to download.
Vmware Player Tools Manual Download
If you want to match up which VMtools version relates to which ESXi build number you can check that out on this page, which lists those mappings:
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