VMWARE TOOLS FOR ESXI 6.0 DOWNLOAD UPDATE

VMWARE TOOLS FOR ESXI 6.0 DOWNLOAD UPDATE

Math #2: Finally we are able to update VMware Tools independently from ESXi patches However, you can get an easy overview by looking at my ESXiPatches site which summarizes all updated VIB packages of every ESXi (5.x and 6.0) patch and provides links to all those KB articles.Īs examples you will find that the release notes of the VMware Tools embedded in ESXi 6.0 U1 are in KB2124717, and the release notes of those embedded in ESXi 5.5 U3 are in KB2110233. You can consider these KB articles release notes, but VMware makes them really hard to find. And that is also true for the tools-light VIBs that represent the embedded VMware Tools package of ESXi. Making version 10.0 available as a 'stand-alone' download with its own Release Notes page is supposed to change this.īut, well, the original assumption is wrong: For every updated VIB package of ESXi VMware publishes a dedicated KB article that describes the updates. People are complaining a lot about that they have no insight in what was changed or fixed with the various VMware Tools updates that happened in the past. Myth #1: Finally we have Release Notes for VMware Tools It's time to debunk some myths, and it's time to admit that the whole VMware Tools story is still a great mess! This release was announced and perceived as a great achievement, but - except for this good news that Brian shared with us - I cannot follow any of the other excited statements that were made about it. Rather, when our engineering teams are ready with key features/updates, we should have the ability to get those benefits out to our customers as quickly as possible. We have decided that there isn’t any specific reason that VMware Tools builds should be tied to vSphere releases/ESXi builds. In the announcement blog post VMware's Brian Graf writes: This version is now an official downloadable component of vSphere 6.0 with its own Release Notes document and a download page in MyVMware. Recently VMware made VMware Tools version 10.0.0 available as a standalone download.

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