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Vmware Tools Unattended Update My VMware

Just wanted to try and update my VMware Tools on a server running VMware Tools 4.0.0 261974 from vSphere 4.0 U2 to VMware Tools 8.3.7 341836 from vSphere 4.1 U1.

I tried the following commands: msiexec Fvomus c:TempVMware Tools64.msi qb ADDLOCALALL REMOVEThinPrint,WYSE REBOOTReallySuppress This says everything succeeds in the event log, yet nothing is installed.

Did anybody have more luck upgrading the VMware Tools using a command Thanks in advance, Bram.

Using i instead of Fvomus worked without giving an error message saying its already installed and first needs to be removed (which it says in the doc).

So I didnt need the REINSTALLALL REINSTALLMODEvomus from the doc.

Name vmConfigSpec New-Object VMware. Vim. VirtualMachineConfigSpec vmConfigSpec.

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Upgrading these both have different requirements so we will cover when and how you should upgrade your VMware Tools and VM compatibility in the below post.

Upgrading VMware Tools When it comes to keeping your VMware Tools up to date we have a few options but I will focus on two of my favorite methods.

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Keeping VMware tools up to date is very important as VMware includes drivers and tools to make sure your VMs run optimally with the latest features.

Eric Gray of our CPBU Technical Marketing Team covers a few considerations and methods in depth in the following blog post Six Methods for Keeping VM Tools Up to Date.

Checking VMware Tools Compliance Before we can start to update our VMware Tools it might be a good idea to understand which VMs in our environment are currently out of compliance, the easiest way to check if a VM if out of compliance is to view it via the vSphere Client and it will show you details such as the version and compliance.

However, since we are talking about automation lets show this another way using PowerCLI.

PowerShell Get-Folder -name Testing Get-VM get-view.id select name, NameToolsVersion; Expression.config.tools.toolsversion, NameToolStatus; Expression.Guest.ToolsVersionStatusSort-Object Name 1 Get-Folder -name Testing Get-VM get -view.

To remediate these to the latest version its actually quite simple with PowerCLI as well.

To make the information clearer on what needs an update we will use the same search only looking for VMs where ToolStatus is guestToolsNeedUpgrade.

PowerShell Get-Folder -name Testing Get-VM get-view.id Where-Object.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus -like guestToolsNeedUpgrade select name, NameToolsVersion; Expression.config.tools.toolsversion, NameToolStatus; Expression.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus Sort-Object Name 1 Get-Folder -name Testing Get-VM get -view.

That is quite simple we can do this using the Update-Tools PowerCLI cmdlet.

PowerShell Get-Folder -name Testing Get-VM get-view.id Where-Object.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus -like guestToolsNeedUpgrade select name, NameToolsVersion; Expression.config.tools.toolsversion, NameToolStatus; Expression.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus Update-Tools -NoReboot -VM.Name -Verbose 1 Get-Folder -name Testing Get-VM get -view.

Name -Verbose You may have noticed that all the VMs had their updates kicked off at the same time and this may not be ideal, this is one way that the Update-Tools cmdlet works, however we can get around this by storing the VMs within a variable and then using a loop process them one at a time.

This is definitely preferable as it will limit the impact to the environment.

Name -Verbose Now our tools are up to date For more information on upgrading your VMware Tools via PowerCLI you can find more information here.

Upgrading Tools Automatically on Reboot Using VM options to keep VMware Tools up to date is also another method to automatically keep VMs up to date.

Enabling the Check and upgrade VMware Tools before each power on advanced setting use to not be used because of the additional reboot it would cause for virtual machines.

Keep in mind that with Windows Server 2016 VMware Tools no longer need a reboot on upgrade, it can be safe to enable this setting and have VMs stay up to date on every reboot.

However this may not be applicable to all situations, so another recommendation would be to enable this for a lab environment or non-critical workloads.

The easy way to enable this option is to log into the vSphere Client, edit the VM settings and enable the setting.

PowerShell Get-Folder TestingGet-VMGet-View select name,NToolsUpgradePolicy;E.Config.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy Sort Name 1 Get-Folder Testing Get-VM Get-View select name, N ToolsUpgradePolicy; E.

Config. Tools. ToolsUpgradePolicy Sort Name Here we can see which VMs have the automatic upgrade set and which ones are configured for manual.

Name vmConfigSpec New-Object VMware.

Vim. VirtualMachineConfigSpec vmConfigSpec.