Manually Download VMware Tools ISO Image

This post is to share the information about How to manually download the VMware tools for various Operation system based on VMware vSphere versions. VMware tools varies for each and every operating system. When we try to install or Upgrade VMware tools using vSphere client, It will automatically mount the associated VMware tools ISO into virtual CD ROM drive of your virtual machine based on the Guest Operating system of the virtual machine. If in case you face any problem with mounting VMware tools ISO image to the virtual machine using vSphere client, you can manually download the VMware tools from the VMware website and install it manually.

You can even download the complete list of VMware tools available for various operating systems and place it in your organization repository to be used by administrators. It will make your job easy. VMware tools helps to optimize the performance of your virtual machine using ESX/ESXi  hypervisor resource management mechanisms.

Download VMware Tools From VMware Webiste

Using the above link you can Select the version of vSphere to download the VMware tools. I have Selected ESXi 5.1 U1 

After selecting the ESX/ESXi version, It will allow us to select the Operating system to download the respective VMware tools version

I have selected Windows in the above section and intern it will ask you to select either 32 bit or 64 bit of VMware tools version for the windows operating system.

Choose either X64 or X86 based on your operating system of the Virtual Machine. It will allow  you to download VMware tools .exe file and also VMware tools ISO image.

Thats it. You are done with the manual download of VMware tools for your guest operating system. I hope this post is informative for you. Thanks for Reading !!!