Together with vSphere 6.0, VMware released a new free tool that simplifies the download of VMware suites and products. The tool is very simple, its totally worth giving it a try. Install it on your desktop, login with your My VMware account and download all products and features of a VMware Suite with on button.
Software Manager Download Page
This is how it looks like:
Download links for VMware vSphere Clients:
vSphere Client 5.5
vsphereclient.vmware.com/vsphereclient/1/9/9/3/0/7/2/VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1993072.exe
vSphere Client 5.1
vsphereclient.vmware.com/vsphereclient/2/3/0/6/3/5/6/VMware-viclient-all-5.1.0-2306356.exe
vSphere Client 5.0
vsphereclient.vmware.com/vsphereclient/1/9/1/7/4/6/9/VMware-viclient-all-5.0.0-1917469.exe
vSphere Client 4.1
vsphereclient.vmware.com/vsphereclient/1/6/5/1/0/2/3/VMware-viclient-all-4.1.0-1651023.exe
All downloads are direct links to VMware.
If you do not trust it, you will find similar information at KB2089791.
Instead of using the vSphere Client to mount VMware Tools ISO files, you can also use a repository provided by VMware to download the package. In my opinion, this is much more comfortable. You copy the installation package to your fileserver and install VMware Tools without having to use the vSphere Client.
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