The VMware Knowledge Base provides support solutions. Search the VMware Knowledge Base. There are numerous ways to upgrade VMware Tools. Avoiding Those Pesky Reboots when Updating VMware Tools. Using a PowerCLI Script. Classic problem keeping vmware tools up to date. Here is a set of power shell scripts to help you figure out what machines have old tools and need updates. I run a version of this script as an email sent to me once a week. I chose this one as I am talking with more and more customers that are currently upgrading to vSphere 5.5 and want to script the. Top 3 Scripts and Tools for June 2014 Developer Center Forums vSphere PowerCLI Forum. What is Best Approach to upgrade VMware View Agent and VMware Tools : Nandeesh. Kindly share VMware powerCLI script for creating multiple virtual machines. Using PowerShell to update VMware tools on. Run the script in PowerShell (The vSphere PowerCLI. There’s no harm in targeting all VM’s because the VMware tools installer will know whether or not an upgrade is. Update VMware Tools from PowerCLI. A VMware Tools upgrade will in most situations update the driver for the network interface within the virtual machine. Keep this in mind when using the script.
Scripted installation / upgrade of VMware Tools. I needed to upgrade VMware Tools on a large number of virtual machine for a customer who is currently going through a migration from VMware ESX 4. VMware ESXi 5. 5. The customer is also going to use Trend Micro Deep Security for the host level antivirus protection and therefore needs to install VMware Tools with v. Shield Driver integration.
Here is how you install / upgrade VMware Tools from the command line: setup. S /v . Note The installer may indicate if a reboot is necessary by exiting with ERROR. Please refer to Names of VMware Tools Components Used in Silent Installations article to identify what components you can exclude in your environment. There are a couple of notes on troubleshooting scripted VMware Tools installation: Check %TEMP%/vmmsi. If script does not work, most likely some of the components are not applicable to the version of ESXi host or Guest OS that you run.
Powershell Scripting using the vmware PowerCLI. Update VMware Tools without a reboot by PowerCLI VMware: Update VMware Tools without a reboot by PowerCLI.
Automating VMware Tools Upgrade Policy. Here is a vSphere SDK for Perl script updateVMToolsPolicy.pl that supports two types of operations. Here is the PowerCLI version to set VMTools to “UpgradeAtPowerCycle”.