VMware vCenter 6.5
9 ESXI hosts all but one is ESXI 6.5
The one is ESXI 6.0 It was at 6.5 but the USB drive failed an upon installing on new usb drive I was unable to install 6.5 So I installed 6.0
When I migrated 3 VM's from my ESXI 6.5 Host to the 6.0 ESXI host I get this warning on the VM
VMWare Tools is outdated on the Virtual Machine Update VMWare Tools
When I click on the Update VMware tools I get an error
So since the VM's came from an ESXI 6.5 host I tried to uninstall VMTools and then lost my mouse so I could not do any thing on the console.
I tried manually to install the VMTools from the 6.0 host but everything I tried failed.
I migrated the VM to a 6.5 Host and was able to install the VMtools from 6.5
What can I do to et rid of this message
Thank you
Tom
Hi insearchof
Check this article
Hi insearchof
Check this article
get-vm "TGCS015" | new-advancedsetting -name isolation.tools.autoinstall.disable -Value false -force
WARNING: Parameter 'Entity' is obsolete. This parameter no longer accepts multiple values.
Perform operation?
Creating advanced setting 'isolation.tools.autoinstall.disable' on entity 'TGCS015'.
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"): y
Name Value Type Description
---- ----- ---- -----------
isolation.tools.a... false VM
Should this setting be TRUE OR FALSE when set to FALSE it fails
I just changed the value to True and it also fails to upgrade vmtools same error message.
Do I need to restart the VM? which setting?
Hello!
Could you specify the Guest OS of the VMs you are trying yo install VMware tools on?
Check these KBs for further information:
I've also found an article that describes a similar issue of yours: Unable to install VMtools on win2012r2 guest (host - ESXi 6.5)
Have a look at them and tell us what you find.
First this is an ESXI 6.0 host not 6.5
I have three VMs on the Host now all running same OS Windows 2012 R2 server
Any ideas?