On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you upgrading the virtual devices within the VMs as well?
Do you mean upgrading the virtual hardware? No, not until all servers in the cluster are at the same version. Else the VMs would be limited as to which ESX(i) host they could run on. > > -sc > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Michael Leone [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 12:04 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: VMWare tools >> >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:50 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I just make a console connection to the server, then at the top, click >> > on the VM drop-down menu, click on Guest and select Install\Upgrade >> > VMWare tools. >> >> That's what I always do. Sometimes the upgrade to a new version takes >> 10 minutes to do, sometimes it takes 1 minute, sometimes it just doesn't >> seem to do it ... since we're in the process of upgrading to v5, and I have >> 100 >> VMs, and each VMTools upgrade requires a reboot, I foresee much fun ... >> and upgrading the virtual hardware version to the latest v8 is another >> shutdown (not just a reboot) ... >> >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > From: [email protected] >> > To: [email protected] >> > Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:00:17 +0000 >> > Subject: RE: VMWare tools >> > >> > OK, I give up - how does one do a manual install? >> > >> > >> > >> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 7:44 AM >> > >> > >> > To: NT System Admin Issues >> > Subject: RE: VMWare tools >> > >> > >> > >> > We're on v4.1, and I always have to manually install the tools thru >> > vcenter. It's not a big deal to me since I don't create that many servers. >> > >> > And on that note, I am so glad we finally got a virtual solution in place. >> > Instead of the get quote for a new server, order it, set it up now >> > it's "Okay, give me an hour or two and I'll have it up and running." >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > >> > From: [email protected] >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: RE: VMWare tools >> > Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:23:08 +0000 >> > >> > I've yet to find an issue installing tools on any server, Ubuntu, >> > Windows >> > (NT,2000,2003,2008) that being said, sometimes servers like Terminal >> > Servers might have an issue timing out unless you switch modes on them. >> > >> > >> > >> > For the most part I always open up a direct console onto the servers >> > log on and then fire up the tools install so I can see what's going >> > on, most are done within 5-10 minutes. Have you looked into the Event >> logs on the server? >> > Maybe an Autorun issue? On the ones that failed have you tried a mount >> > CD and then do the tools manually (next,next,finish)? >> > >> > >> > >> > From: Richard McClary [mailto:[email protected]] >> > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 8:09 AM >> > To: NT System Admin Issues >> > Subject: VMWare tools >> > >> > >> > >> > Greetings! >> > >> > >> > >> > Why is it that on some VMWare VM's, VMTools will not install? I can >> > find no errors nor any consistency. >> > >> > >> > >> > Locally, we are currently running ESX 3.5. I see the failure for >> > VMTools to install on some Windows 2003 machines. On others, created >> > at about the same time (within a day or two), VMTools installs on them >> quickly with no issues. >> > >> > >> > >> > Several weeks back, I created my first Windows 2008 server on an ESX >> > 4.1 system. In vCenter, I gave the command to install VMTools. 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