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    <title>topic Re: VMware Tools and VM migration in ESXi Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/VMware-Tools-and-VM-migration/m-p/2180528#M208181</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;There is no problem since VMware Tools have backward compatibility... you can read more about here: &lt;A href="http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/02/is-a-vmware-tools-upgrade-required-when-upgrading-vsphere.html" title="http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/02/is-a-vmware-tools-upgrade-required-when-upgrading-vsphere.html"&gt;Is a VMware Tools Upgrade Required When Upgrading vSphere? | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;And the following image shows this compatibility:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="vmwaretools.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/53842i42D8E2C320C95E60/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="vmwaretools.JPG" alt="vmwaretools.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:16:14 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>rcporto</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2014-07-31T17:16:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>VMware Tools and VM migration</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/VMware-Tools-and-VM-migration/m-p/2180526#M208179</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have a question:-&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;suppose we have esxi host with 2 versions one with esxi4.1 and another with esxi5.5 and vm is running on esxi5.5 with latest vmware tools but with hardware version7. is it possible to migrate this vm to esxi4.1 without any issue even with up to date vmware tools?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:05:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/VMware-Tools-and-VM-migration/m-p/2180526#M208179</guid>
      <dc:creator>RanjnaAggarwal</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-07-31T17:05:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMware Tools and VM migration</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/VMware-Tools-and-VM-migration/m-p/2180527#M208180</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm not aware of any VMware Tool version compatibility issues, so this should work just fine&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;André&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:15:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/VMware-Tools-and-VM-migration/m-p/2180527#M208180</guid>
      <dc:creator>a_p_</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-07-31T17:15:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMware Tools and VM migration</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/VMware-Tools-and-VM-migration/m-p/2180528#M208181</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;There is no problem since VMware Tools have backward compatibility... you can read more about here: &lt;A href="http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/02/is-a-vmware-tools-upgrade-required-when-upgrading-vsphere.html" title="http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/02/is-a-vmware-tools-upgrade-required-when-upgrading-vsphere.html"&gt;Is a VMware Tools Upgrade Required When Upgrading vSphere? | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;And the following image shows this compatibility:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="vmwaretools.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/53842i42D8E2C320C95E60/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="vmwaretools.JPG" alt="vmwaretools.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:16:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/VMware-Tools-and-VM-migration/m-p/2180528#M208181</guid>
      <dc:creator>rcporto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-07-31T17:16:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMware Tools and VM migration</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/VMware-Tools-and-VM-migration/m-p/2180529#M208182</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;my question is if the vm is with esxi5.5 version vmware tools can i run this vm on esxi4.1? will it generate any warning on esxi or not?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:20:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/VMware-Tools-and-VM-migration/m-p/2180529#M208182</guid>
      <dc:creator>RanjnaAggarwal</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-07-31T17:20:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMware Tools and VM migration</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/VMware-Tools-and-VM-migration/m-p/2180530#M208183</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;From the link I provided above:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The extended VMware Tools support does two things:&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;1. It allows virtual machines running older versions of VMware Tools to run in a supported configuration on newer versions of ESXi.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;2. It allows virtual machines running newer versions of VMware Tools to run in a supported configuration on older versions of ESX/ESXi.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So, the answer is YES, you can run a VM with VMware Tools from ESXi 5.5 on a ESXi 4.1 without problems.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:22:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/VMware-Tools-and-VM-migration/m-p/2180530#M208183</guid>
      <dc:creator>rcporto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-07-31T17:22:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: VMware Tools and VM migration</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/VMware-Tools-and-VM-migration/m-p/2180531#M208184</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;just in addition here is another post that could interest you:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.v-front.de/2013/01/how-to-use-latest-vmware-tools-with.html" title="http://www.v-front.de/2013/01/how-to-use-latest-vmware-tools-with.html"&gt;VMware Front Experience: How to use the latest VMware Tools with older vSphere versions&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regards,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;P.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:24:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/VMware-Tools-and-VM-migration/m-p/2180531#M208184</guid>
      <dc:creator>vNEX</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-07-31T18:24:52Z</dc:date>
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