Download the module to the desired local directory and then import similar to:
Import-Module $HOME/Downloads/VMToolsOnline
This module contains one function, Get-VMToolsOnline.
The module structure is a convenience for those that prefer modules.
If you want just the function, it is located in the public folder of the module.
version 0.1.0 - Initial release
version 1.0.0.1 - Added handling for Invoke-WebRequest to UseBasicParsing by default when performing the lookup of versions available on vmware.com
NAME
Get-VMToolsOnline
SYNOPSIS
Uses Powershell webcmdlets to connect to vmware.com and get a list of all
VMware Tools versions along with supporting information.
SYNTAX
Get-VMToolsOnline [-Uri <String>] [-PassThru] [<CommonParameters>]
Get-VMToolsOnline [-ShowHeader] [<CommonParameters>]
Get-VMToolsOnline [-Raw] [<CommonParameters>]
DESCRIPTION
Uses Powershell webcmdlets to connect to vmware.com and get a list of all
VMware Tools versions along with supporting information. Also includes
a derived property for RSS showing if a given Tools version is affected.
All version information is obtained live from the internet, while the RSS
bug is checked against a specific list of affected versions included in the script.
The RSS issue was introduced in VMware Tools 9536 (9.10.0) and resolved in VMware Tools
10282 (10.1.10). We treat versions greater than 10282 as being resolved and therefore
return false for the RssImpactedTools property.
PARAMETERS
-Uri <String>
String. The URI of the offical VMware Tools release page. No need to change this.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value https://packages.vmware.com/tools/versions
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false
-ShowHeader [<SwitchParameter>]
Switch. Optionally, show header comments from the official VMware patch release page.
The comments are valid only for the first four columns, which are provided by VMware.
Additional columns added by the community (i.e. 'RSSAffectedTools') will not be documented
in the header.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value False
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false
-Raw [<SwitchParameter>]
Switch. Optionally, return the raw format of the web uri returned.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value False
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false
-PassThru [<SwitchParameter>]
Switch. Optionally, return object info with no formatting.
Required? false
Position? named
Default value False
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false
<CommonParameters>
This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,
ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,
OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see
about_CommonParameters (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).
NOTES
Script: Get-VMToolsOnline.ps1
Author: Mike Nisk
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------
PS C:\>Get-VMToolsOnline
This example runs the script with no parameters. By default you will get a
report of all available VMware Tools versions on your screen. We maintain the
original formatting where possible. To use the data as objects see the PassThru
parameter in the next example.
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------
PS C:\>$versions = Get-VMToolsOnline -PassThru
This example saves the report to a variable. We use the PassThru parameter which returns
all data as objects. If we did not use PassThru, then the output is formatted using Format-Table
which is not object friendly.
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 3 --------------------------
PS C:\>Get-VMToolsOnline -ShowHeader
This example returns the default comments available on the official tools site.
It contains helpful information about versioning, releases, etc.
-------------------------- EXAMPLE 4 --------------------------
PS C:\>Get-VMToolsOnline -Raw
Returns the original content with native formatting. This is the same thing you would see
if you navigated to https://packages.vmware.com/tools/versions using a browser.
PS C:\> Get-VMToolsOnline
ToolsVersion EsxVersion ToolsRelease EsxBuild RssAffectedTools
------------ ---------- ------------ -------- ----------------
10346 esx/0.0 10.3.10 NotBundled False
10341 esx/6.5p03 10.3.5 10884925 False
10338 esx/6.7ep05 10.3.2 10764712 False
10338 esx/6.7u1 10.3.2 10302608 False
10309 esx/6.0ep19 10.2.5 10719132 False
10309 esx/6.0p07 10.2.5 9239799 False
10305 esx/6.5ep11 10.2.1 10719125 False
10305 esx/6.7ep2a 10.2.1 9214924 False
10305 esx/6.5u2 10.2.1 8294253 False
10304 esx/6.7 10.2.0 8169922 False
10287 esx/6.5p02 10.1.15 7388607 False
10282 esx/6.0p06 10.1.10 6921384 False
10279 esx/6.5u1 10.1.7 5969303 True
10277 esx/6.0p05 10.1.5 5572656 True
10272 esx/6.5p01 10.1.0 5146846 True
10272 esx/6.5 10.1.0 4564106 True
10252 esx/6.5 10.0.12 4564106 True
10249 esx/5.5p11 10.0.9 6480324 True
10249 esx/5.5ep11 10.0.9 5230635 True
10249 esx/6.0u3 10.0.9 5050593 True
10249 esx/5.5p10 10.0.9 4722766 True
10249 esx/6.0p04 10.0.9 4600944 True
10249 esx/5.5p09 10.0.9 4345813 True
10249 esx/6.0p03 10.0.9 4192238 True
10249 esx/5.5p08 10.0.9 4179633 True
10248 esx/0.0 10.0.8 NotBundled True
10246 esx/6.0u2 10.0.6 3620759 True
10245 esx/0.0 10.0.5 NotBundled True
10240 esx/6.0ep05 10.0.0 3566359 True
10240 esx/6.0p02 10.0.0 3380124 True
10240 esx/5.5p07 10.0.0 3248547 True
10240 esx/5.5ep10 10.0.0 3568722 True
10240 esx/5.5ep09 10.0.0 3343343 True
9541 esx/6.0ep04 9.10.5 3247720 True
9541 esx/6.0u1 9.10.5 3029758 True
9537 esx/6.0p01 9.10.1 2809209 True
9536 esx/6.0 9.10.0 2494585 True
9359 esx/5.5ep08 9.4.15 3116895 False
9359 esx/5.5u3 9.4.15 3029944 False
9356 esx/5.5p05 9.4.12 2668677 False
9355 esx/5.5ep07 9.4.11 2638301 False
9355 esx/5.5ep06 9.4.11 2456374 False
9355 esx/5.5p04 9.4.11 2403361 False
9354 esx/5.5ep05 9.4.10 2143827 False
9354 esx/5.5p03 9.4.10 2143827 False
9354 esx/5.5u2 9.4.10 2068190 False
9350 esx/5.5p02 9.4.6 1892794 False
9349 esx/5.5ep04 9.4.5 1881737 False
9349 esx/5.5ep03 9.4.5 1746974 False
9349 esx/5.5ep02 9.4.5 1750340 False
9349 esx/5.5u1 9.4.5 1623387 False
9344 esx/5.5p01 9.4.0 1474528 False
9344 esx/5.5 9.4.0 1331820 False
9233 esx/5.1p09 9.0.17 3872664 False
9232 esx/5.1p08 9.0.16 3070626 False
9231 esx/5.1p07 9.0.15 2583090 False
9231 esx/5.1u3 9.0.15 2323236 False
9229 esx/5.1p06 9.0.13 2126665 False
9228 esx/5.1p05 9.0.12 1897911 False
9227 esx/5.1ep05 9.0.11 1900470 False
9227 esx/5.1p04 9.0.11 1743533 False
9226 esx/5.1ep04 9.0.10 1612806 False
9226 esx/5.1u2 9.0.10 1483097 False
9221 esx/5.1p03 9.0.5 1312873 False
9221 esx/5.1p02 9.0.5 1157734 False
9221 esx/5.1ep03 9.0.5 1117900 False
9221 esx/5.1u1 9.0.5 1065491 False
9217 esx/5.1ep02 9.0.1 1021289 False
9217 esx/5.1p01 9.0.1 914609 False
9216 esx/5.1 9.0.0 799733 False
8401 esx/5.0p13 8.6.17 3982828 False
8400 esx/5.0p12 8.6.16 3086167 False
8399 esx/5.0p11 8.6.15 2509828 False
8398 esx/5.0p10 8.6.14 2312428 False
8398 esx/5.0p09 8.6.14 1976090 False
8397 esx/5.0ep06 8.6.13 1918656 False
8397 esx/5.0p08 8.6.13 1851670 False
8396 esx/5.0p07 8.6.12 1489271 False
8395 esx/5.0u3 8.6.11 1311175 False
8395 esx/5.0p06 8.6.11 1254542 False
8395 esx/5.0ep05 8.6.11 1117897 False
8395 esx/5.0p05 8.6.11 1024429 False
8394 esx/5.0u2 8.6.10 914586 False
8397 esx/5.0p08 8.6.13 1739451 False
8389 esx/5.0p04 8.6.5 821926 False
8389 esx/5.0p03 8.6.5 768111 False
8389 esx/5.0u1 8.6.5 623860 False
8384 esx/5.0p02 8.6.0 515841 False
8384 esx/5.0p01 8.6.0 474610 False
8384 esx/5.0 8.6.0 469512 False
8307 esx/4.1p11 8.3.19 False
8307 esx/4.1p10 8.3.19 False
8307 esx/4.1p09 8.3.19 False
8307 esx/4.1p08 8.3.19 False
8306 esx/4.1p07 8.3.18 False
8305 esx/4.1p06 8.3.17 False
8305 esx/4.1u3 8.3.17 False
8300 esx/4.1p05 8.3.12 False
8300 esx/4.1p04 8.3.12 False
8300 esx/4.1u2 8.3.12 False
8295 esx/4.1p03 8.3.7 False
8295 esx/4.1u1 8.3.7 False
8290 esx/4.1 8.3.2 False
8199 esx/4.0p15 8.0.7 False
8199 esx/4.0p14 8.0.7 False
8198 esx/4.0p13 8.0.6 False
8197 esx/4.0ep09 8.0.5 False
8196 esx/4.0p12 8.0.4 False
8196 esx/4.0p11 8.0.4 False
8196 esx/4.0u4 8.0.4 False
8196 esx/4.0p10 8.0.4 False
8196 esx/4.0u3 8.0.4 False
8195 esx/4.0u2 8.0.3 False
8194 esx/4.0u1 8.0.2 False
8192 esx/4.0 8.0.0 False
7304 esx/3.5p27 7.4.8 False
7304 esx/3.5p25 7.4.8 False
7304 esx/3.5p24 7.4.8 False
7304 esx/3.5u5 7.4.8 False
7303 esx/3.5u4 7.4.7 False
7302 esx/3.5u3 7.4.6 False
7302 esx/3.5u2 7.4.6 False
PS C:\>
PS C:\> Get-VMToolsOnline -Raw | more
# VMware version-mapping file.
#
# This file provides a one-to-one mapping between VMware Tools for
# ESX/ESXi version-number codes, and paths to OSP repositories suitable
# for that Tools version.
#
# The ESXi server mapping is only to show that the particular version of
# Tools ships with that particular ESXi server build number, but the Tools
# can work with a greater range of ESXi versions.
#
# Column 1: Tools version on NGC/VI Client
# Column 2: ESXi server version.'esx/0.0' indicates that the tools version
# is not yet bundled with ESXi.
# Column 3: Tools version on guest Setup/About page
# Column 4: ESXi server build number
#
#
10346 esx/0.0 10.3.10
10341 esx/6.5p03 10.3.5 10884925
10338 esx/6.7ep05 10.3.2 10764712
10338 esx/6.7u1 10.3.2 10302608
10309 esx/6.0ep19 10.2.5 10719132
10309 esx/6.0p07 10.2.5 9239799
10305 esx/6.5ep11 10.2.1 10719125
10305 esx/6.7ep2a 10.2.1 9214924
10305 esx/6.5u2 10.2.1 8294253
10304 esx/6.7 10.2.0 8169922
10287 esx/6.5p02 10.1.15 7388607
10282 esx/6.0p06 10.1.10 6921384
-- More --
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