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Tools Category

Cmdlets are usually implemented around resource operations. The four basic operations are CREATE, READ, UPDATE and DELETE. This set of operations is known as CRUD. Most of the cmdlets support CRUD which are respectively cmdlets that start with the New/Get/Set/Remove cmdlet verbs but they also may have additional operations

Step 1 : Run commands from the CRUD group

You can UPDATE objects by using Dismount-Tools cmdlet. See example below:

# Dismounts the VMware Tools from the VM virtual machine. The virtual machine must be powered on.

Dismount-Tools VM

Step 2: Explore More Related Commands:


Mount-Tools This cmdlet mounts the VMware Tools CD installer as a CD-ROM on the guest operating system.
Update-Tools This cmdlet upgrades VMware Tools on the specified virtual machine guest OS.
Wait-Tools This cmdlet waits for VMware Tools on the specified virtual machines to load.