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glassin
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vmtools 10.3 update

    Today i got the security advisory from vmware to update tools to 10.3.  after googling i could not find how this was done automatically, through update manager like my patching of the esxi hosts.  there it says tools are current, but in add/remove programs its 10.1.  I know vmtools have been out of date before and updated so what am i missing?  or do i really have to do each server one at a time from iso or exe?

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glassin
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So my update manager will not assist me in updating all the tools across all my servers?  I have to download and run individually on each guest OS?

or is what i'm looking for happen after i get hosts updated with latest?

EDIT:  This was what i was looking for but wasn't sure how to ask it.  I can manually download and install vmtools updates, but it will be bundled into esxi host updates that i can apply via update manager i just have to wait for release.

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The explanation:

New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2018-0017 - VMware Security & Compliance Blog - VMware Blogs

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You can download VMware Tools Offline VIB Bundle in Update Manager in the manual mode Download VMware vSphere

Обновление VMware Tools с использованием VUM (Update Manager) | IT-пилот

You can also resolve the vulnerability by using the isolation.tools.hgfs.disable parameter.

Уязвимость/vulnerability VMware Tools HGFS. Установка isolation.tools.hgfs.disable с PowerCLI. | IT-...

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So my update manager will not assist me in updating all the tools across all my servers?  I have to download and run individually on each guest OS?

or is what i'm looking for happen after i get hosts updated with latest?

EDIT:  This was what i was looking for but wasn't sure how to ask it.  I can manually download and install vmtools updates, but it will be bundled into esxi host updates that i can apply via update manager i just have to wait for release.

update manager and vmtools

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