VMware tools
are very important to install in any Virtual Machine, They are a complete
package of utilities that helps Guest OS perform better and more efficiently. With
VMware tools we get device drivers for VMXNET3, Balloon driver for memory
management, Sync Driver for quiescing I/O. There is a performance benefit in
graphics and mouse. It provides ability to copy, paste text, files etc between
VM and the client desktop, time synchronization, Guest authentication through
vCenter single sign-on. The latest version of VMWare tools is 10.1.0 that is
shipped with vSphere 6.5. VMware Tools 10.1.0 provides digital signature
verification, product locker for storing ISOs, 3 supported Guest OS ISO Images
i.e for windows vista, windows pre vista like windows xp, windows 2000 and
Linux RHEL5 and its other sibling flavours.
You can
download the VMware tools 10.1.0 from the link VMware tools download
Once you go the link you will see an image like below
