asked on 1/29/2019

Performing VMWare Tools upgrades at the same time as MS patching

Aloha,

I am beginning a VSphere 5.5 to 6.5 to 6.7 upgrade. Wondering about the VMWare Tools upgrade part.
Has anyone had success bundling the VMT upgrade with MS patching?

Bill

Windows OS VMware

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Bill Courtney

1/29/2019

Roshan Mohammed

1/29/2019

In our environment, we have selected the VMtools to be upgraded as part of OS reboots.

So the planned way it works is as below;

before windows is patched [via the patching tools]
the OS guest.vm is rebooted.
In this reboot, the vmtools is updated.
Post this, MS patching is done.

It's also good to upgrade the vmhardware as well.

I have scripted this to be done, after organising outages,as the guest OS/vm needs to be powered off, before doing so.

Our experience has shown, that updating vmtools before the vm hardware works fine.

regards

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Steve

1/29/2019

Agree with Mr H. rolling it up into a single update process makes it really hard to diagnose when things go wrong.
Concentrate on the upgrade to new ESX version and roll out the tool afterwards.

Bill Courtney

1/29/2019

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Mahalo. You guys confirmed my intuition.