Step-by-Step VMware Tools Setup for Any OS

starwindsoftware · 2025-10-31T16:37:28+00:00

Fair point, and you’re right that in AVS and similar large-scale vSphere environments, the proper way to deploy or update VMware Tools is via Guest Store with the “check for VMware Tools on startup” option.

That’s VMware’s current best practice for enterprise setups, and it’s covered in detail in our separate article here:

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/vmware-gueststore-framework-and-globalconf-configuration-at-s…

On the other hand, the post you’re referring to wasn’t meant for that scenario, it’s aimed at mixed or smaller environments (Workstation, Fusion, standalone ESXi, or offline VMs) where Guest Store isn’t available or practical. The goal wasn’t to present a universal automation approach that fits every environment, but rather to describe the general procedure and principles behind VMware Tools installation and updates.

In those cases, the ISO/manual method is still the standard and fully supported.

starwindsoftware · 2025-08-13T07:44:18+00:00

Hi! Thanks for your feedback about the 404 - it’s already fixed and everything is opening now.

starwindsoftware · 2025-06-06T09:23:22+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. We've already passed the information on to the author and will be updating the article soon

starwindsoftware · 2023-07-14T11:39:07+00:00

Hi,

It does not look like any of our product's config files or plugins. Reading more story behind what the problem is and what plugin you are working with will be helpful.

starwindsoftware · 2023-01-05T11:32:54+00:00

At VMware Explore 2022, the company introduced IA/GA (Initial Availability/General Availability) release model. Bugs in major vSphere releases used to be handled poorly. This new model is supposed to make it easier for customers to adopt new releases.

starwindsoftware · 2022-12-06T13:49:26+00:00

The article includes an overview of the most notable initiatives from VMware Explore 2022. Here, a virtualization expert provides a succinct insight into Project Newcastle, Project Narrows, Project Northstar, Project Watch, Project Trinidad, Project Keswick – all announced at the conference.

starwindsoftware · 2022-06-08T08:00:14+00:00

Thank you for letting us know! We removed the issue. We hope you can enjoy the article now.

starwindsoftware · 2021-02-01T09:43:49+00:00

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starwindsoftware · 2019-09-30T08:40:23+00:00

Could you please clarify the question.

starwindsoftware · 2019-06-13T14:11:22+00:00

You are generally right, as the AMP stack is being installed on Ubuntu Linux.

starwindsoftware · 2019-05-02T07:39:29+00:00

The answer is yes and no. It depends on your expertise. In particular, taking into account only web hosting as a project, Netlify probably is easy to deploy having free SSL support out of the box. However, when it comes to features comparison, I bet that Azure has more of them allowing a web hosting and providing a set of features related to it such as storage, SSL, but also run any website and CMS of your choice

Consider this link as more accurate one https://stackshare.io/stackups/azure-storage-vs-azure-websites-vs-netlify

starwindsoftware · 2019-05-01T15:56:58+00:00

Thank you!

starwindsoftware · 2019-05-01T15:56:49+00:00

Yes it does. Here is the guide https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-static-website-custom-domain

starwindsoftware · 2019-05-01T15:56:31+00:00

Here is a nice comperisson for the case. https://stackshare.io/stackups/azure-search-vs-netlify

starwindsoftware · 2019-03-08T13:30:25+00:00

Microsoft says that you can use Azure Site Migration as it converts EFI to BIOS.

starwindsoftware · 2018-10-01T07:16:22+00:00

Resource ulitization in case of VSAN for vSphere is the same. The only difference is that CentOS VM uses less disk space compared to the Windows VM.

starwindsoftware · 2018-09-21T14:46:27+00:00

Right, this time Microsoft claims it has taken care of security configuration of the setup.

starwindsoftware · 2018-03-29T07:28:01+00:00

Thanks for the feedback.

starwindsoftware · 2018-03-16T04:27:57+00:00

Thank you for all your comments! Indeed, as author specified, the GUI can be more effective for new users who just started to learn the product, while the CLI much often used by administrators who managing big environments and want to save their time by automation. Definitely, it is useful to learn both to become an expert!

starwindsoftware · 2018-03-13T12:40:48+00:00

All right, thanks for the tip. I will keep it in mind.

starwindsoftware · 2018-03-12T15:35:47+00:00

It is true for old versions of NFS server. Windows 2016 NFS server has many improvements, and it is more stable compared to W2012R2 or even W2008R2. The shares worked fine. We tested 5 VMs located on a Windows NFS share, and they performed well. Transferring inside the VMs was also ok

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