Mass Upgrade Of VMware Tools for Linux Hosts

[ganapa2000]

Hi,

Is there a way to upgrade VMware Tools on multiple linux VMs using powercli

As per the VMware document, I see we can right click on the VM and click on upgrade vmware tools by passing --default parameter to linux VM.

Is this can be achieved by PowerCLI ?

Please help

[LucD]

You have two options nowadays.

1. A lot of recent Linux distributions come with the open-vm-tools installed. Since these packages are present on their repositories, you can use the normal package update procedure for the Linux distribution. For example on Ubuntu you could do an 'apt-get -y update'.
   
   
2. If you want to upgrade with the VMware ISO, you can mount the ISO and then do a './vmware-install.pl -d default' inside the guest OS

The commands for 1) and 2) can be run inside the guest OS via the Invoke-VMScript cmdlet.

[ykzhang]

Yes, we do provided powerCLI script to achieve that, regardless of OS type, see "Invoke-VMToolsUpgradeInVMs “ in PowerCLI-Example-Scripts/VMToolsManagement.psm1 at master · vmware/PowerCLI-Example-Scripts · GitHub

Be aware that LinuxOS should have tartools preinstalled.

Br
Yike

[LucD]

Afaik that will not work for the open VMware Tools (open-vm-tools)

[AlbertWT]

So I guess the Option #2 can be automated in this script: PowerCLI-Example-Scripts/VMToolsManagement.psm1 at master · vmware/PowerCLI-Example-Scripts · GitHub  ?

[LucD]

Although I have not a lot of practical experience with that module, the Invoke-VMToolsUpgradeInVMs function in that module should do the trick.