CentOS 7.6.1810 was incorrectly reported as CentOS 6 by VMware Tools

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• CentOS 7.6.1810 shows up in VMware vSphere as a Guest OS of CentOS 6
• When you run "vim-cmd vmsvc/get.guest vmid" from ESXi host side to get Guest Information of CentOS 7.6 VM, guestId and guestFullName is reported as CentOS 6, like below:

 

guestId = "centos6_64Guest"
guestFullName = "CentOS 6 (64-bit)",

Cause

Open-VM-Tools bundled in CentOS 7.6.1810 cannot recognize the OS version "7.6.1810" in /etc/centos-release.

Resolution

To resolve this issue follow one of the following steps.

• Remove open-vm-tools in CentOS 7.6.1810 and install VMware Tools (Version>=10.3.10).

OR,

• Replace "7.6.1810" with "7.6" in /etc/centos-release.