Upgrade VM Tools 10.x to 11.x on Auto Deploy Hosts / Guests?

[dborgill]

I have an environment that is on the latest 6.5 patches and over 100 hosts on auto deploy. We have only 9,000 VMs. We received a vulnerability alert for VMTools 10.x and need to get to VMTools 11.x. ASAP

From my research, there is only two way to accomplish this. Please advise if there is a better way. The main goal is to avoid downtime and interruption while automating as much as possible.

Option 1 - Update VMTools package to 11.x in Auto Deploy image, reboot/redploy all auto deploy hosts then update VMTools per image

Option 2 - Package VMTools 11.x and deploy to VMs via SCCM with no reboot option. Reboot/update tools on OS updates

Thanks in advance!

[berndweyand]

or provide the tools this way: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2004018

VMware Knowledge Base

but i think option 2 is the way with less downtime