VM Tools fail to upgrade with vix error 21007


The reason for the failure in my findings, is because the virtual machine hardware version is old and needs upgrading. Perform a compatibility upgrade on the VM and then try the tools again.

This is the error you may get from PowerShell, the same is true using the vSphere web client:


This is how you fix it in the vSphere web client:


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