You can check the status of the VM tools on the Virtual center / vSphere hosts on the Virtual Machine Tab under the “vmware tools status” header, you can also get it with a couple of PowerShell scripts
From: Randal, Phil [mailto:pran...@herefordshire.gov.uk] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 3:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: vSphere 4.1 U1 In our environment, I'm seeing VMs not prompting for the upgraded tools. Best to open VMware tools, check "about" and if it doesn't say Copyright © 1998-2011 then the tools need updating. It's easier to visually check for the year "2011" than remember obscure build numbers. Cheers, Phil From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: 24 February 2011 18:43 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: vSphere 4.1 U1 1. You can set the autoupdate on each guest to tell you when an update is available but you have to initiate it on each vm. From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 1:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Damien Solodow Subject: Re: vSphere 4.1 U1 I can't remember if there is a feature in Vmware, but I believe there is a script out there that can update the tools en masse. I know VMware Tools checks for upgrades, but can't remember if it does the actual install when there is an upgrade available. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Damien Solodow <damien.solo...@harrison.edu<mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu>> wrote: You definitely do. DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.217.6851 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com<mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com>] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 1:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: vSphere 4.1 U1 You will probably need to upgrade the VMWare tools on the guests. 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