Create Custom Component

Purpose: To apply the latest VMware Tools to all the ESXi

• Checked the VMTools Version on the current hosts running ESX version 8.0 U3d - 12.4.5

• The current cluster has been configured with Image and under Components - Tools version is 12.4.5

Note: This is an expected behaviour since the Image version has Tools version is 12.4.5 which is applied on all hosts and they are compliant

Manually modify the image and add a new tools component with version 12.5.1 and perform a re-scan and remediate

Note: Adding new tools version will automatically remove old tools version and will make the hosts non-compliant. Once remediated tools version will be updated to 12.5.1

Steps:

• Download your custom component from the appropriate location. In this example of VMWare Tools, downlaod the VMware tools core offline depot ESXi bundle from the Broadcom portal.

• Upload the new component to the vCenter server. Login to vCenter > Lifecycle Manager > Actions > Imports Updates

• Make sure your component appears in the image depot.

• Login to vCenter > Under Cluster > Updates > Image > Click Edit

• Click “Show Details”

• Click Add Components

• There are three options

  1. Independent Components - Are the components which are not included in any vendor addon.

  2. Independent Components and Vendor Addon Components - Are the components third-party integrations (e.g., backup solutions, monitoring tools) provided by external vendors.

  3. All Components - Are the components combine the Independent Components and Vendor Addon

• In our case we choose “Independent Components” > Select VMTools 12.5.1 > Click Select

• Click Validate, once successful > Click Save

Note: We expected that all ESXi hosts under that cluster would be running as non-compliant.

• Now we need to scan and remediate all the ESXi

• After the remediation, the output will indicate that all the ESXi hosts in that cluster are compliant.

Test:

• Install the latest VMTools to the VM Server.

• As we can see on the below screen capture we successfully installed the latest VMTools 12.5.1