To download the VMware tools for your guest operating system, visit the package repository at packages.vmware.com With VMware Workstation 7, you have the option of downloading updated VMware Tools by navigating to Help Check for Updates on the Web. VMware PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell, and provides more than 800 cmdlets for managing and automating vSphere, VMware Cloud Director, vRealize Operations Manager, vSAN, NSX-T Data Center, VMware Cloud Services, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware HCX, VMware Site Recovery Manager, and VMware Horizon environments.
Installing VMware Tools is part of the process of creating a new virtual machine. Upgrading VMware Tools is part of the process of keeping virtual machines up to current standards.
For the best performance and latest updates, install or upgrade VMware Tools to match the version of Workstation Pro that you are using. Other compatibility options are also available.
For more information about using VMware Tools, see Installing and Configuring VMware Tools at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware-tools-installation-configuration.pdf.
I’ve had cause to look for the VMware Tools download a couple of times recently, so thought a quick post was in order to cover where you can download all the VMware Tools ISO images from.
VMware Tools should be installed in all VMs running on the ESXi host for increasing VM performance. VM tools improves the administration of VM’s guest OS, helping ensure error-free user interactions. Normally VMware Tools (vmtools) will be installed using the vSphere client, or in bulk using Update Manager, however there are occasions where you may want to download a copy of the ISO. You may want to install an older version of VMtools, or perhaps to look at installing VMtools using a different deployment tool such as SCCM.
How to Download VMware Tools
VMware make all the current and past versions of VMware tools available here. When you go to that URL you will see a page listing current and previous ESXi builds:
Clicking on a directory will show you the tools packages available:
As shown above, there are directories for each supported Guest OS, in which you can find the .iso file to download.
If you want to match up which VMtools version relates to which ESXi build number you can check that out on this page, which lists those mappings:
VMtools Release Notes and Product Documentation
You can find all the release notes and documentation for all the vm tools releases here.
Download Vmware Tools For Linux
Open VM Tools Download
Download Vmware Tools For Linux Guest
open-vm-tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of virtual machines. There is more information on open vm tools and download links here.