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The default value for this variable is /locker/packages/ ( ESXi-Version = 5.1.0, 5.0.0, 4.1.0 or 4.0.0). Finally, in KB1038578 you can learn about ways to automate and industrialize this change through PowerCLI or esxcli. If you are using Host Profiles to configure your hosts you should just add this setting there. The easiest and most obvious way is via the vSphere Client in the Host Configuration / Advanced Settings menu: To configure your hosts to use the shared VMware Tools repository you need to change the advanced configuration setting UserVars.ProductLockerLocation. Configure your hosts to use the shared VMware Tools repository This is now your VMware Tools Shared Repository.ģ. VMware Tools Shared Repository on a datastore The directory structure on the datastore should finally look like this: Upload the directory that you created in step 1 to this datastore using the vSphere Client's datastore browser: An NFS datastore can be safely shared among all hosts of all clusters or even multiple vSphere datacenters. I recommend utilizing an NFS datastore for this, because it does not have any of the sharing and file locking limits of VMFS (on FC or iSCSI). In your vSphere environment choose a datastore that is accessible to all hosts. Upload the VMware Tools files to a shared datastore Now create a new empty directory (I will call it vmware-tools in our example) on your hard disk and extract all three directories shown here into this directory.Ģ.
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VMware Tools repository included in a ESXi 5.x patch bundle If there are two versions (like in this example) that means that one of them (the one with the lower build number) only includes the latest security fixes and the other one (with the higher build number) includes both security and bug fixes.ĭouble click on the one with the higher build number (914609 in this example), then open the included tools file and further drill down until you finally find the directory structure that you need for the VMware Tools shared repository:
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Here you will find exactly one or two versions of the tools-light VIB file. Tools-light VIBs included in a ESXi 5.x patch bundle
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Open the zip file in 7-zip and navigate into the included directory vib20\tools-light:
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Extract the VMware Tools files from the latest ESXi 5.1 patch bundleĭownload the latest ESXi 5.1 patch bundles from the VMware Patch download portal. However, a shared VMware Tools repository can be configured and used independently from Auto Deploy! In the following I will outline the required steps:ġ. Leaving out the VMware Tools from this boot process saves a lot of network traffic and significantly reduces the time to boot. This is primarily meant for hosts that are provisioned through Auto Deploy: When using Auto Deploy the hosts use PXE boot to load the complete ESXi system via the network from a boot server. It describes a method for setting up a shared VMware Tools repository for multiple hosts (instead of installing the Tools on each of the hosts). The key to the answer is in KB2004018: VMware Tools for hosts provisioned with Auto Deploy.