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Basically updating the Tools on your hosts not different from updating a VIB. The more classic (manual) VIB method of updating Tools on an ESXi host relates to my previous post about: Manually updating ESXi Hosts.

vLCM methodĬheck out Al Rasheed his post “ Updating VMware Tools in vSphere 8” on how to update the VMware Tools package on ESXi hosts using vLCM. As of vSphere 7 U3 and open-vm-tools v11.3.0 it’s available for Linux also. GuestStore is a feature of vSphere 7 U2 and VMware Tools v11.2.5 and later. The GuestStore feature provides a simple and flexible mechanism to distribute VMware specific or custom content from a GuestStore repository to multiple guests simultaneously. GuestStore is one of the newer methods of distributing and updating VMware Tools at scale in your environment amongst other features. Methods of updating the Tools GuestStore method The scope is to install the latest Tools version on your ESXi hosts so they can be made installed using your preferred deploy method.

This post is not about getting VMware Tools up-to-date within your VM’s. In this post I’ll show you how ESXi hosts can updated to the latest available version, when they contain critical bug or security fixes. When updating an ESXi host, the VMware Tools could be updated, but most of the time not to the latest version. In most cases VMware Tools are available as part of ESXi installation.