Install VMware guest Linux OS tools

Installing VMware tools in guest Windows Based OS is simple where dialog box appears and user just needs to confirm the installation. In CLI based linux OS user needs to perform a couple of check and complete procedure is as following:

First step is to make sure that perl is present in the server;

Using the following command it can be verified:

rpm -qa | grep perl

if it is not present then use following commands to install (I have installed it in centOS);

yum -y install perl

after it is installed create a directory:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom

Then on the Vsphere client and attach the linux tools iso:

after iso is inserted mount the cdrom to folder which was created earlier

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

copy the tar file on /tmp folder
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz /tmp

after copy umount the device
umount /mnt/cdrom

unzip the tar file
tar -zxf /tmp/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz -C /tmp

then run the following command, -D means default setting if you want manual settings then remove the -D check
/./tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl -D

remove the files and tmp folder
rm -f /tmp/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz
rm -rf /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib