{"id":237,"date":"2020-07-06T06:52:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shresthabrijan.com.np\/?p=237"},"modified":"2020-07-06T06:54:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:54:47","slug":"how-to-get-iso-of-vmware-tools-for-infrastructure-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shresthabrijan.com.np\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"How to get iso of vmware tools for infrastructure automation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Installation of vmware tools in vmware exsi based machines are pretty straight forward. We see a notification if a vm is missing one and by clicking the install vmware tools, it auto mounts the installer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, what if we need the iso file for automation? For example, I have been trying to explore packer for automated template creation which can be used by terraform for vm deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here the <a href=\"https:\/\/packages.vmware.com\/tools\/esx\/\">link<\/a> to the answer. We choose our esxi version and operating system for which we need the vmware tools and can find iso, repo, package or installer as per our need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installation of vmware tools in vmware exsi based machines are pretty straight forward. We see a notification if a vm is missing one and by clicking the install vmware tools, it auto mounts the installer. However, what if we need the iso file for automation? For example, I have been trying to explore packer for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shresthabrijan.com.np\/?p=237\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-lg\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","category-system-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shresthabrijan.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shresthabrijan.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shresthabrijan.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shresthabrijan.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shresthabrijan.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shresthabrijan.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/shresthabrijan.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shresthabrijan.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shresthabrijan.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shresthabrijan.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}