I was hoping to get some feedback as to how others are handling upgrading VMware Tools on dedicated VMs. We have a Full Clone pool that we assign VMs to users and according to the VMware documentation below, the Horizon Agent needs to be uninstalled before VMware Tools gets updated.
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2118048
With Instant Clones, this is easy enough where the parent image can be updated following the above install order. With a dedicated pool, the Full Clones reply on a template image provided by vCenter. The install order can be performed on this template image, but how are other addressing the existing VMs?
According to VMware support, I need to be following this install order as a best practice. When you have over 100+ dedicated VMs, this introduces a bit of overhead just to update VMware Tools.
Is it just best to put together a script that could perform the following tasks?
1. Uninstall the Horizon Agent.
2. Reboot.
3. Update VMware Tools.
4. Reboot.
5. Re-Install the Horizon Agent.
6. Reboot
Thanks.
