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Second thing I did was to copy those above mention content on that newly created drive and once the copy was successful, I had simply Detached that drive and remember its Data store path.

First I created a new 10GB drive attached to a Virtual Machine which was on a network and created an NTFS format.

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Copy all the content to your local media or other NTFS drive.Р”Р„s the machine neither had the CD ROM driver nor has the network connectivity, then I utilized the VMware Edit Virtual Machine Feature, for that.

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Now you will be thinking why I didnРІР‚в„ўt copied this iso file directly to the host where my newly migrated VM was residing, So when we install the VMware tools a mount has been initiated and to get the mount we need to have the supportive Windows 2003 CD ROM driver on that machine which we didnРІР‚в„ўt had, So now I had Copy all the content to a folder in my machine for that first I used the WinSCP client to copy that iso than mount it using the default mount options which we are getting in Windows 2012 Servers.

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To get this file you can use the any SFTP client which works over port number 22, then you need to login to your host using root credentials and password, navigate to the location /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/ and look for the desired mentioned image download it and extract it using the tools which you are comfortable with I used the 7zip program for this. After reading the release notes of vSphere 6.5 I found out that the VMware Tools Version 10.0.12 and after going through the release notes I found out that this contains a winprevista.isoР’В РІР‚СљBingoРІР‚Сњ here you go, I was fortunate enough that in one of my lab environment I was running vSphere 6.5U1 and now I need to extract the Winprevista.iso file from this host to my machine and need to extract using WinZip or 7Zip program. As this newly migrated VM was running on vSphere 6.7 U1 and after several tries and getting the above mentioned error, I come up with an idea that lets install the Older Version of VMware tools which I downloaded from VMware, but that also resulted in a failure.

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Windows 8.1 with Microsoft update KB2919355Р”В«ut As we all know VMware tools comes with drivers and some other important metrics which will be helpful in future for troubleshooting and managing and planning the resources accordingly with the behavior of a virtual machine.

Windows Server 2012 R2 with Microsoft update KB2919355.

Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2).

Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

The list of the OS which support these latest VMware tools are below. These Notes clear stats that there is no iso or packages has been released for Windows 2003 or earlier OS. Whenever I design or deploy/implement VMware solution I generally go through the release notes of the product which is very important at the time of every vSphere Major Release VMware announces the release of Latest VMware tools, VMware Tools 10.3.2 Release Notes Although the guest operating system can run withoutР’В VMware Tools, you would lose important functionality and convenience.

AsР’В VMware ToolsР’В is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machineРІР‚в„ўs guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Once the migration was done from physical to virtual which was successful one for the support teams once they trying to install the VMware tools they were getting errors stating that РІР‚Сњ The required VMware Tools ISO image does not exist or is inaccessible.РІР‚Сњ Later at the time of troubleshooting I found out the machine is Windows 2003 which they need to up and running for at least 2 quarters as they are coming up with new solution for that particular project. As last few weeks back at one of my customer site we got to know that one of the machine they had recently migrated from physical to Virtual (VMware vSphere 6.7U1) and are facing trouble to install the VMware Tools. As Microsoft had already made the announcement few years back about the End of Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 as well as some other old traditional legacy EUC OS. Sometimes decommissioning old system is not easy as it looks, as this has a lots of dependency on business as well as on end users.