Thanks for sharing.  Amazing how much these tools are affected but good to keep them updated.  Nice to also see some of the drivers for this coming to the Windows Update as well as the overall packages from VMware.

I should make another post for this, but I’m curious of anyone is aware of a tool that can be used to upgrade multiple vCenter’s and Hosts remotely for multiple clients.  To be clear, I have 20-30 VMware environments that I manage, and vCenter Update Manager/Lifecycle Manager does a great job of patching hosts and keeping up to date itself from the appliance management, but each environment is managed one by one which is quite the task.  Our RMM manages our Windows boxes, etc, but it would be great if there was a tool to manage or even just monitor versions and available patches, etc for VMware environments.  I did some looking to see if there were any tools for this sort of thing a year ago or so, but didn’t really find anything.

Maybe this is what you need as per your description: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tools/10.3.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vmwaretools.doc/GUID-7E1225DC-9CC6-401A-BE40-D78110F9441C.html, or https://thesleepyadmins.com/2021/08/08/upgrading-vmware-tools-different-methods/

Take a look at this too:https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/09/automating-upgrade-of-vmware-tools-and-vmware-compatibility.html

Well in this case, I’m looking to upgrade more than just tools, but also upgrade vSphere ESXI and the VSCA.  But…the first list you sent looks like a series for upgrading the PSC/VCSA and ESXI and such, so this may be helpful.  And I hadn’t considered automating using the CLI though I have performed updates via the CLI in the past on really small environments where the VCSA runs on the only host present making it difficult to use VUM/VLM as it will have to be taken offline to perform the update of the host.  Thanks for pointing this out and I’ll do a bit more digging!

Ah nice one! I didn’t see this earlier and created a duplicate on the Security Group. For some reason I no longer get notifications from the Community boards. 

Go here (https://community.veeam.com/settings/general) to turn on your notifications.  More than once (or 6 or 7 times or more) I’ve actually clicked the link at the bottom of the email to turn off notifications rather than the link to go to the posting I wanted to read, and had to go here to turn things back on.

Thank you for posting this, I'll update those in a next maintenance window.

Fun fact, easiest way on Windows is with Chocolatey, no need to change anything on your host to include the vmware tools ISO, just install / upgrade the vmware-tools package.

choco install vmware-tools

choco upgrade vmware-tools

This is how I do it in my HomeLab. 

You just did the magic for me. I get emails only on topics i engage in. I come on here to check on active participants and then engage. I can see some settings were set to no for me. I hope this resolves my issue.

Thank you! That seems to have done it :) 

Great post!  

Having upgraded VMware tools is also part of the Veeam best practices.  Veeam uses the VMX for things like Networkless restores, and AAP processing can be done from VMX as well.  Bit as mentioned in the article VMtools also affect speed and performance and API integration.  Fun fact - The Veeam One reporter has a Backup assessment report that on VMs that have outdated VMtools.  

The VM assessment report also reports on that.  And of course, everyone updates their VMtools all the time right? ;) 

This is a report in VONE that we are using more and more now that we are upgrading VMware across all our DCs as we need to then tell clients to update the VM hardware versions and tools as well.  

Thanks a lot! 

> Fun fact - The Veeam One reporter has a Backup assessment report that on VMs that have outdated VMtools.  

I was about suggesting this to @dloseke, but I couldn’t since I haven’t tried it.

Thank you for pointing this out!