Guest operating system Windows 2000 and earlier, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and later support VMware Tools.
For Windows 2000 and later, VMware Tools installs a virtual machine upgrade helper tool. This tool restores the network configuration if you upgrade the virtual machine compatibility from ESX/ESXi 3.5 to ESX/ESXi 4.0 and later or from Workstation 5.5 to Workstation 6.0 and later.
Other tools in the package support synchronization of time in the guest operating system with time on the host, automatic grabbing and releasing of the mouse cursor, copying and pasting between guest and host, and improved mouse performance in some guest operating systems. The installers for VMware Tools for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and NetWare.
Procedure
VMware Tools provides a different ISO file for each type of supported guest operating system: Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, NetWare, Solaris, and FreeBSD. Operating System Specific Packages (OSPs): Downloadable binary packages that are built and provided by VMware for particular versions of Linux distributions. Windows OSes since Windows 7 / 2008 R2 (I think I have that right) include a base of Integration Services drivers in the OS itself. Any combination of Windows OS in a VM plus Hyper-V (older than Windows 10 / Server 2016) requires you to manually update the integration components in the VM.
What to do next
Xdcam drive software. If a new virtual hardware version is available for the virtual machine, upgrade the virtual hardware.
Instead of using the vSphere Client to mount VMware Tools ISO files, you can also use a repository provided by VMware to download the package. In my opinion, this is much more comfortable. You copy the installation package to your fileserver and install VMware Tools without having to use the vSphere Client.
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