VMWARE tools installed :?

You can also check using VMware Community Power Pack Tools, and PowerCLI.

From the vShere Client, click on whichever level contains the VMs you want to check, either the datacenter level, or the cluster level, or a single host.

Click on the "Virtual Machines" tab.

Right-click on any column heading to bring up the add/remove columns dialog, then click on "VMware Tools Status" to add that column.

Now you can click on that new column heading to sort.  Possible values are: OK, Not installed, Not running, Out of date

You should also take a look at RVTools (http://www.robware.net/), which has great filtering options when displaying information about dozens/hundreds of VMs.

--klodefactor

VMware Tools Filter in vSphere GUI Client
 
VMware Community Pack

 
I would also recommend using the following, also VMware recommends the use of PowerCLI, which is PowerShell interface with vSphere-specific additions.

http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vsphere/automationtools/powercli

One of the simplest PowerCLI examples, and something which is actually extremely useful on its own, is the Get-VM cmdlet. Which lists VMs.

PowerCLI can be a bit overwhelming to use,  But it can be enhanced with a nice toolset and a library of preconfigured scripts to jump-start your mass changes, which is possible with PowerGUI

http://powergui.org/index.jspa

and

VMware Community Pack

http://www.virtu-al.net/featured-scripts/vmware-powerpack/

The Community Pack is nice, but the vSphere Client "Filter" you mention doesn't appear to be a filter, just sort capability as I described above.

RVTools has an actual filter where you can restrict the listing by one or more of the following: datacenter, cluster, host, powerstate (on/off/suspended), VM/template, etc.  See attached image.

--klodefactor
RVTools-filter.png