There are many articles on the web about how to update VMware Tools of virtual machines, without a reboot. Here is my take on it. Simple, dirty code.
- First a CSV file (deploy.csv) containing list of servers to be updated.
name vmserver01 vmserver02 vmserver03 vmserver04 vmserver05 vmserver06 vmserver07 vmserver08 vmserver09 vmserver10
- And here is the actual Powershell script, I run it from vSphere PowerCLI. To run from Windows Powershell, add "Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core" at the beginning of the code. After updating the vms, it sends out an email with the list of vms updated. Get-Cluster <cluster name> portion can be skipped, if there is only one cluster.
#Connect to vcenter server
connect-viserver <vcenter name>
#Import vm name from csv file
Import-Csv deploy.csv |
foreach { $strNewVMName = $_.name #Update VMtools without reboot Get-Cluster <cluster name> | Get-VM $strNewVMName | Update-Tools –NoReboot write-host "Updated $strNewVMName ------ " $report += $strNewVMName
}
write-host "Sleeping ..."
Sleep 120
#Send out an email with the names
$emailFrom = "<sender email id>"
$emailTo = "<recipient email id>"
$subject = "VMware Tools Updated"
$smtpServer = "<smtp server name>"
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($emailFrom, $emailTo, $subject, $Report)