VMware Tools Stuck in “Upgrade in progress” Fix

I notice the VMware Tools status on some VMs (mostly Linux) is “Upgrade in progress”.

For these VMs, I cannot vMotion them to another host; and some of these VMs, the “Edit Settings” and “Edit Resource Settings” are grayed out.

Solution:

• Find the ESXi host running the VM
• Use vSphere C# Client to connect to the ESXi host directly; Do not connect to the vCenter Server.
• Locate the VM in the vSphere C# Client
• Right-click on the VM, Guest, End VMware Tools Install

• VMware Tools status changes back to running.

Then I can vMotion the VM or run the VMware Tools installation again.