Upgrading VMWare tools on RHEL and CENTOS VM’s

vmware-tools-upgrader -p "--default"

Or, for VM’s running cPanel (keep in mind you need to mount the installer first, choose the interactive installer option):

cd /mnt
mkdir cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom ./cdrom
ls cdrom
cp cdrom/VMwareTools*.tar.gz /
umount cdrom
rmdir cdrom
cd /
tar -xvzf VMwareTools*.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib/
$(which perl) vmware-install.pl

Once you get through the install:

cd ..
rm -rf VMwareTools*.tar.gz vmware-tools-distrib/