If you have the VMware Tools installed but they are out of date, you may lose some functionality depending on how out of date the VMware tools are. From there, you can click to update those tools as you see in the graphic below. However, my recommendation is to always use a virtualization management tool in your virtual infrastructure that can easily detect and identify problems like out of date tools as well as much more serious problems like hardware failures and capacity bottlenecks.
Recently, I did a webinar with vExpert Dennis Zimmer and vExpert Scott Lowe talking about top VMware VM issues like out of date tools and how the software as a service vSphere management tool — Opvizor — can help to automate problem detection and quickly show you the solution to remediate those problems usually before they impact end users.
The graphic above shows how Opvizor detects VMs with out of date or uninstalled VMware tools and tells you how to update them, either manually or through scripting actually providing you the script. In many cases, Opvizor even has a video showing you step by step how to perform the resolution to the problems that it identifies.
Re: Turn off 'vmware tools are not up to date' warning Post by Gostev » Tue Nov 29, pm this post Hi Jason - no way to turn it off, but I will ask development to suppress this warning in the next update. Having VMware Tools most up-to-date is not important indeed. Re: Turn off 'vmware tools are not up to date' warning Post by joshuastenhouse » Mon Dec 05, am this post Please can you confirm if this is going to be in the next update or not and likely timescales?
A large proportion of my jobs are now showing warning and it doesn't look good to the powers above! Historically, it used to take between 2 and 3 months between the major version release and the first maintenance release. Basically, we need to collect enough of other issues to justify the maintenance release.
Re: Turn off 'vmware tools are not up to date' warning Post by jkcouch » Sat Dec 24, am this post I will pile on this! Its Very important for us to get this warning removed. We dont have a single jobs without the warning flag. Can it just be a option in the backup server to enable warnings for the tools? Thanks Gostev. Re: Turn off 'vmware tools are not up to date' warning Post by JeffHengesbach » Tue Dec 27, pm this post I'll join in on this one also.
I understand since we are working at the hypervisor level the integration points are important but if the backups are completing successfully, a warning should not be thrown. I was hoping it would make it to Patch 2 - but no such luck. Re: Turn off 'vmware tools are not up to date' warning Post by Gostev » Tue Jan 10, am this post Patches typically do not include anything but bug fixes It is a degradation from v5, as well.
Re: Turn off 'vmware tools are not up to date' warning Post by Gostev » Tue Jan 17, pm this post I meant, it is not a bug per our definition but I appreciate that you may have different opinion. We consider this as an enhancement. Besides, patches only include fixes for critical bugs anyway we need to keep changes to absolute possible minimum to reduce time to release.
However, since there are a lot of requests for this particular issue, I will try to squeeze this into the next patch. Certainly more minor than this issue. But I understand! We'll keep patiently waiting. Re: Turn off 'vmware tools are not up to date' warning Post by Gostev » Tue Jan 17, pm this post Yep, the CIFS one is the real bug by definition product functionality is not working.
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