VM Tools v 9.4.11 - are vm going to relase this as a windows.iso

[Jam1eG]

Hi,

Anyone from VM side here that can answer the following

We have ESXi 5.5U2 running and all VM's have been updated to use the stock VMTools v9.4.10 however this has proven in our environment to degrade network performance, I've had to downgrade three VM's so far back to the previous version of VMTools to get away from this issue, it was adding 20-30 seconds to some tasks - looks like its NIC related "VMXNET3", we eventually tracked it back to the tools update.

I've tested v9.4.11 of VM tools that is available however I would like to add this to the ESX hosts "ISOIMAGES" so this then becomes the VM Tools baseline, I've looked at this area and my windows machines would use a file called windows.iso however when looking at packages.vmware.com I can only find the x86 & x64 .exe files and no .iso file, so are VMware going to release this in .iso format so all ESXi host's can be updated rather than running an .exe file on over 250 VM's?

Cheers

[DavoudTeimouri]

Hi,

I have 3 scenarios for upgrading VMware tools manually on your virtual machines:

1. Download proper version of EXE file and put it on a shared folder (Read-only for all/For you user), then you can upgrade your VM's VMware tools by using PowerCLI, PSEXEC and WMIC.
   • PowerCLI: Read this document about Invoke-VMScript:https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.powercli.cmdletref.doc%2FInvoke-VMS...
   • PESXEC: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx
   • WMIC:http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/2009/05/episode-31-remote-command-execution.html
2. Download ISO file and put it on your ESXi servers directly, then you can update your VMs VMware tools manually by GUI or by running script via PowerCLI or Update Manager and automatic upgrade during power cycle.
   • Login to your server by SSH or directly via your server.
   • Go to this path: /vmimages/tools-isoimages
   • Rename you orginal Windows image to windows.iso.old
   • Copy your new ISO file to this path.
   • Then your VMs version status will be changed to old on vSphere client.
   • Upgrade your VMs VMware tools by your prefer way.
3. Download ISO file, load ISO file to virtual CDROM via vSphere client console and do interactive upgrade.

[Jam1eG]

Cheers for the reply, the problem I was having wasn't about how to update it was I couldn't find the .iso file release from VMware, I've looked again today and I can find it under the 64bit version, the right .iso file is there so I can continue as planned an put this onto the ESXi hosts after renaming and crack on as per.