How To: Upgrade the VMware Tools in vCMA

I am by no means a linux expert but this method worked for me.  I now have the latest version of VMware Tools from vSphere running in vCMA.
0. Snapshot the vCMA machine so you can undo if there are any problems!
1. Firstly download the latest linux.iso from your esx box to your desktop. Use WinSCP or other similar tool to download this from /vmimages/tools-isoimages
2. Extract the tar.gz file using an archive manager such as 7zip. The vSphere version is called VMwareTools-4.0.0-164009.tar.gz so this is what I will refer to from here on.
3. Upload VMwareTools-4.0.0-164009.tar.gz to the vCMA servers /tmp directory using WinSCP or downloading it from a webserver using wget http://server/VMwareTools-4.0.0-164009.tar.gz
4. On the vCMA server console install the The World-Wide Web library for Perl. yum install perl-libwww-perl
5. Extract the contents of the VMwareTools-4.0.0-164009.tar.gz file in the /tmp directory. tar zxf /tmp/VMwareTools-4.0.0-164009.tar.gz
6. Uninstall the previous version of VMware Tools using the uninstaller from the latest version. The uninstall script wasn't left from the initial install. /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
7. Install the latest version accepting the defaults. /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl
8. Reboot the vCMA server. shutdown -r now
9. If everything works correctly remove the snapshot.
That should be all there is to it.
Good luck!

You could also replace steps 1 - 3 with the following alternates:
1. Shutdown the VCMA  guest and add a "client" CD ROM to the VCMA appliance and power-on;
2a. Create a directory for mount point, "mkdir /mnt/cdrom"
2b. Select "VM->Guest->Install/Upgrade VMware Tools" from the console menu;
2c. Mount the VMware Tools CD, "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom"
3. Copy the VMwareTools to the /tmp directory, "cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-4*.gz /tmp"
Then proceed from your steps. Next Tools update you will only need to do steps 2b, 2c, 3, 5 and 7-9.
--Collin C. MacMillan
SOLORI - Solution Oriented, LLC
http://blog.solori.net
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