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Demo: Install VMware tools

Demo: Install VMware tools - vSphere Tutorial

From the course: VMware vSphere 6.5 Essential Training Part 1

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Demo: Install VMware tools

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- [Instructor] In this video, I'll take a moment to explain VMware Tools and why it's so important and some of the reasons why you wanna make sure that it's running on every virtual machine that you can possibly run it on. Now before we get into some of the specific features that VMware Tools provides, let's take a quick look at how you can install VMware Tools on your virtual machines. So there's a couple ways that you can go about this and there's also a couple ways that you can ensure that VMware Tools is kept consistently updated. My personal favorite way to do this is to just allow VMware Tools to automatically update every time you reboot a virtual machine. So for example, here we see a virtual machine called RickCrisciDB. If I want to, I can right click this virtual machine and there's a number of options here. I'm going to go to Edit Settings and under Edit Settings, what I can do is I can choose to allow VMware Tools to automatically update upon reboot. The reason that I like…

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