I believe the open-vm-tools at http://packages.vmware.com/tools are ESX host version agnostic.
We pull the rhel 4-6 repos into RHN satellite and just use puppet ensure the latest is installed. If you do t use satellite you could just clone the repo and configure yum on the clients. Packages are available for RHEL, SuSE and deb at least. -Alan On Sep 22, 2012 3:25 PM, "Hai Tao" <ehai...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is a useful tool. However, the difficulty is that our ENV has > multiple versions of ESX hosts, 3.5, 4.1 and 5.0. The guest OS has no > clue what version of ESX it is running on, so how can puppet server > push a correct version of vmware tools to a client? > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Michael Stahnke > <stah...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Jakov Sosic <jso...@srce.hr> wrote: > >> On 09/19/2012 11:55 PM, Hai Tao wrote: > >>> > >>> There seems to be a few vmware tools installation modules. Has someone > >>> used these modules to install VMware tools? > >>> > >>> Searching http://forge.puppetlabs.com ... > >>> NAME DESCRIPTION > >>> > >>> AUTHOR KEYWORDS > >>> vchoi-vmware Puppet module to handle installation, upgrade > >>> and reconfiguration of vmware tools on vmware virtual nodes. > >>> @vchoi virtualization vmware vmware-tools > >>> vmware_tools vmtools > >>> razorsedge-vmwaretools Puppet VMware Tools OSP Module > >>> > >>> @razorsedge vmware vmware-tools vmware_tools vmtools > >>> rhel CentOS SuSE OEL > >>> puppetlabs-vcenter VMware vCenter installation and management > >>> > >>> @puppetlabs windows vmware vcenter vsphere > >>> 5UbZ3r0-vmwaretools This module handles the installation the > >>> VMware Tools Operating System Specific > >>> @5UbZ3r0 debian virtualization rhel CentOS > >>> vmware vmware-tools vmwaretools > >>> puppetlabs-appdirector # VMware vFabric Application Directorâ > >>> ¢ Puppet > >>> Service > >>> @puppetlabs vmware > >>> > >>> > >>> How well does it work? > >> > >> > >> It seems that nobody tried this already. I'm interested too... > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Jakov Sosic > >> www.srce.unizg.hr > >> > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "Puppet Users" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > >> > > > > I don't know that I would endorse one over another, but Puppet Labs > > did a module of the week post about one of them. > > > > http://puppetlabs.com/blog/module-of-the-week-razorsedge-vmwaretools/ > > > > That might be a good starting point. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > Hai Tao > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
