We’ve been talking about snapshots this week, and as part of
the discussions we thought about the question:
How do we list VMs with VMware Tools installed?
My answer, use PowerCLI.
However, some great suggestions came back.
Use life cycle manger. We select the Cluster > Updates
> VMware Tools
The Tools Status column then shows as
- Upgrade Available
- Guest Managed
- Not Installed
- Unknown
- Up to Date
The other suggestion, enable the column in the VMware
vSphere Client.
By default, we don’t see the column for VMware Tools
Select one of the columns and then select the down arrow,
and select View/Hide Columns and then select the VMtools Options, and
now you have the view showing VMtools on the VMs
