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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • June 2, 2022

VMware GuestStore Framework and GlobalConf configuration at scale

VMware GuestStore enables you to distribute virtual machine (VM) agents, configuration files, VMware Tools upgrades, and custom content from a single shared repository. This way, you can ensure that the content within your vSphere environment is always consistent and correctly distributed, also thanks to the GlobalConf feature.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • March 29, 2022

Why VMware Tools v12 brings an important update?

The virtualization world keeps on driving at full speed. VMware recently released a big pack of upgrades to its Tools. Among others, the most interesting updates relate to certain critical vulnerabilities, support for new guest OS products, and, what’s really nice, backward compatibility capabilities with older VMware products.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • April 16, 2020

What are the differences between VMware Tools and Open-VM tools?

Deliberating about choosing the necessary suite should consider various issues. For Windows VMs it’s just VMware tools and that’s it. For Linux VMs, you have to abide by the VMware Compatibility Guide, which is very strict, as you know. Open-VM tools are not worse, even better at some points, than the VMware ones, but nuances are due.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • March 5, 2020

How to Automate the Upgrade of VMware Tools and VM Compatibility

Each new VMware vSphere release introduces new features and functions in addition to fixing the drawbacks that may have been in the previous version. With each new one, you need to upgrade VMware Tools in all your VMs and check if you need to upgrade their VM compatibility, otherwise they won’t have access to the desired perks.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • November 29, 2016

Recent news for VMware Tools packages for VMware vSphere 6.5

Starting from VMware Tools 10.0 version, VMware has done these packages downloadable separately from VMware ESXi distributions. They are available here. To see the active VMware Tools version installed in your VM, simply look at VM properties in vSphere Client.
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