How to install and use open-vm-tools on Atomic Host with VMware vCenter environments

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Atomic host 7.x
  • VMware ESXi Hypervisor
  • VMware vCenter 6.5 and newer

Issue

  • Atomic Host does not provide additional guest information to vCenter

Resolution

With Atomic Host 7.4, we are including a system container for open-vm-tools in the VMware OVA image. Open-vm-tools will automatically run and management for the container is provided via the Atomic CLI. Alternatively, if you are installing Atomic Host using the installer ISO or have an existing deployment, the same open-vm-tools container can be installed and enabled by running the following:

# atomic pull --storage=ostree rhel7/open-vm-tools
# atomic install --system --name open-vm-tools rhel7/open-vm-tools
# systemctl start open-vm-tools

Diagnostic Steps

Running

# sudo atomic containers --list

should show the rhel7/open-vm-tools container running.

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