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nikhilbalaji
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vmware tools 12.1.0 upgrade

Hello everyone

Need a help

We have a mixed esxi environment vcenter 7.03, 1 esxi in 7.03 ver, and other 3 in 6.5 and 6.7 versions. Currently VMware released vmtool ver 12.1.0 to mitigate a vulnerability. When using lifecycle manager to update vmtools on all VMS , only baseling can be created for esxi ver 7. We need to update all our VMS in esxi ver6.5 and 6.7. we cannot go for esxi 6.5/6.7 upgrade to 7 now. Any other way to update vmtool 12.1.0 on all esxi 6.5/6.7 version vms

Thanks in advance

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DhirajChopra
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Hi, 

Please find VMware kb , it may help you

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2129825

 

Please mark it as solution/Kudo 

 

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nikhilbalaji
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Not working. After check compliance on esxi 6.5 the vmtool upgrade is still showing as old version and uptodate

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Sam0054
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@nikhilbalaji ,

The other alternative would be to download the vmware tool setup file from vmware download center and update the VMware tools manually on each VMs.

 

Hope that helps.

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Kinnison
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Hi,


A side note, the latest build of the "VMware Tools" may require an update to the "Microsoft Visual C ++ runtime" and thus this involves performing a restart of the guest operating system for the prior installation of the said "runtime".


Regards,
Ferdinando

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nikhilbalaji
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Thanks for the answer. 

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nikhilbalaji
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We have a lot of VMs, so manually will be tedious task . Looking for to update vmtool inside esxi 6.5 vmtools image , if possible

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EdYee
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We are having the exact same issue with our mixed 7.0 and 6.7 environment. Has there been any progress?

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DhirajChopra
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This article provides steps to install or upgrade VMware Tools for existing VMware ESXi hosts to the latest version of VMware Tools.

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2129825

 

pls kutos, if solution accept it, 

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reezy
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Needed to remediate VMware Tools update addresses a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2022-31676) in a mixed host (6.7 & 7) environment with in a vcsa7 instance. Was only able to locate 12.1.0 for ESXi 7 & 8 via LCM. Not sure why it wasn't available for 6.7.

Creating a VMware tools repository on a shared DS that our remaining 6.7 hosts could hit sufficed for now until we can schedule upgrades. Some VMs needed a reboot before the tools upgraded successfully. Ended up scheduling the VMtools upgrades at the tail end of a recent patch cycle which worked out well.

Configuring a VMware Tools Repository in vSphere 6.7U1 - VMware vSphere Blog

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