Manually Download VMware tools ISO image from VMware

How to download the VMware tools manually from the VMware website ?. In most organizations, there will be a dedicated VMware support team and where the guest operating will be managed by the windows or Linux/Solaris team according to the operating system model. In this support model, you need the VMware team’s help to attach the VMware tools ISO on the guest operating system to install the VMware tools. VMware tools are a very important element to working guest operating systems properly without any performance issues.

VMware Offers to download the Guest operating system’s VMware tools on the portal http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/

Here I would like to share some of the screenshots to select the correct VMware guest tools for specific ESXi versions.

1. Open the  URL http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/ in the browser and select the appropriate ESXi version. Just scroll down and select if you are using ESXi 5.5 update 1.

2. Here you have all the ESXi 5.5 update 1  supported guest operating systems VMwaretools directory. Here I have just highlighted RedHat Linux-supported version on VMware ESXi 5.5 u1. Select the Guest operating system type and the version here.

3. Navigate to the Guest operating system architecture. If it is the 64-bit operating system, then select X86_64, and the 32-bit operating system chooses i386 or x86.

4. You can get the repodata file for RedHat Linux since its supports YUM. For windows, you will get a single EXE file.

You can download the files and install the VMtools in a few minutes. VMware recommended keeping the VMware tools updated to date to avoid VM crashes.

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