Wednesday, February 8, 2012

VMTools Update - Many ways to cut it.

Updating VMtools can be pain the a$$.  We have 6000+ VMs and it is challenging to keep all the VMTools updated.  There are many ways to update it: Script it, do it manually, use Update Manager, or use "Check and upgrade vmtools during power cycling" settings in VM option.  Thankfully, we have maintenance window for many of our VMs.  I like to take advantage of these windows reboot windows to update the vmtools.  Note that this option only works on VMs with older vmtools installed.  It will not install VMtools on VMs that does not have VMtools running.


There are so many VMs out there and I can't be selecting this options one by one.  That's where PowerCLI script comes to the rescue.

Script below will add the option:





Script below will remove the option:

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