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 without VMware Tools, you would lose important functionality and convenience. As VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine.
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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 ” The required VMware Tools ISO image does not exist or is inaccessible.” 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.
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