CyberFlood: In the VMware vSphere UI, why does the wrong version of VMware Tools appear after deploying the controller using ESXi?

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Thursday, October 16, 2025

Question:

CyberFlood: In the VMware vSphere UI, why does the wrong version of VMware Tools appear after deploying the controller using ESXi?

Answer:

This is an issue in the vSphere UI, specifically version 6.0 of VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi. Support for showing the installed version of a "guest managed" open-vmware-tools was added to ESXi 6.5 and higher. For more information, please see VMware Tools version display for open-vm-tools and Operating System Specific packages (2147876).

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