Changing Guest OS version from 2012 R2 to OS 2016 in VC Summary tab

[vmk2014]

Hi All,

While pulling the RV tools report it pulls the information from Windows 2012 R2 as 2012 R though the VM is running with OS version 2016. In order to fix this each VM we need to change the option from VM edit setting --> VM option to OS 2016 but to apply the changes we need to unregister the VM's from inventory and add back to inventory which requires downtime.

We have around 800 VM's as windows 2016 but rvtools shows Windows 2012 R2 based on VC summary tab.  We want to fix this from power cli. Screenshot attached.

It seems earlier VC 5.5 was not having for OS 2016 deployment.  Any help will be much appreciated.

thanks

vmk

[Wasfi]

Login to VM, open file explorer, find the VD/DVD derive, double click on it and the installation wizard will appear, follow the steps and reboot the VM to upgrade to the new OS.