VMTools/Open Vm Tools et HWVersion

Overview

VMware Tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of, and seamless user interactions with, guests operating systems. It is recommended to deploy VMWareTools as soon as you deploy VMs. Severals functionalities will be available after deployment.

• It's possible to have the same functionalities with open_sources package open-vm-tools.
• You can update also the Hardware version by taking into account the compatibility guide.

Please note!
To ensure that your backups works fine, you need to have the latest VMWare Tools compatible with the ESXi versions in place on CaV Environment: ESXi, 7.0.3, 20328353 (April 2024).

Prerequisite

• VM Access
• VM Configuration
• Have a CD-ROM drive mounted. If you haven't, you need to download the package corresponding to the Current Hypervisor: ESXi, 7.0.3, 20328353 (April 2024).
  • Tools / OS version Compatibility: here
  • Download: here.

VmWare Tools

Insert VMwares Tools From Data Centers/Virtual Machines/ click on the VM and from General tab, you can see the current VMware Tools version.
From Data Centers/Virtual Machines/Install VMwareTools, you can launch the installation.
Windows Install From the VM, launch setup64 Follow the installation with an Full Installation. VM needs to reboot.
Check the VMWare Tools version.

If you don't have a CDROM drive mounted on your VM, the packages are available on the VMWare site: here

Linux Install	Mount the CDRom drive: mount/dev/cdrom /cdrom Launch the installation: cd /tmp tar zxpf /cdrom/VMwareTools-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.tar.gz Unmount the CDRom: umount /dev/cdrom Start the installation: cd vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl Relaunch the Networking Services: /etc/init.d/network restart
Check that the installation was successful

Hardware Version

Please note!

Upgrading virtual hardware can potentially improve performance. You need to check compatibility with your OS.

Upgrading the hardware version is done when the VM is Power Off.

=== Hardware compatibility matrice === NGP >> ESXi 7.0U2 NGP supports the Hardware version (19) NUP (FCA) >> ESXi 6.7U3 The NUP (FCA) platform supports up to Hardware version 15. For prevention purposes, a limit has been set at version hardware 14 on FCA at vCloudDirector level. It's useful to know this when you want to VM Deploy from an OVF.
Compatibility Guide You can check which hardware version your OS is compatible with from this page Compatibility Guide (vmware.com)
Check the Hardware Version From General / Hardware version
Depuis le menu ACTIONS de votre VM > Mettre à niveau la version du matériel virtuel Rappel : La VM doit être Hors tension.

Open VM Tools

Please note!

Pour obtenir la copie la plus récente du code source d'Open VM Tools, rendez-vous sur le site Web GitHub : ici.

Les Repositories Linux sont également disponibles depuis la Zone de Services Orange.

Si dans les Propriétés de la VM il n'y a pas de Guest OS identifié, dans ce cas l'installation des Open-Vm-Tools est requise.

Voici la liste des OS pouvant supporter les Open-Vm-Tools : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 et versions supérieures SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 et versions supérieures Ubuntu 14.04 et versions supérieures CentOS 7 et versions supérieures Debian 7.x et versions supérieures Oracle Linux 7 et versions supérieures Fedora 19 et versions supérieures openSUSE 11.x et versions supérieures
Si lors de la mise à jour des VMware Tools vous obtenez le message suivant : "The required VMware Tools ISO image does not exist or is inaccessible." Vous devez installer le paquet open-vm-tools. Ouvrez une session sur la VM Saisissez la commande : apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-dbg Redémarrez la VM.

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