After my engineers gave me a test vmware system full of the requested guest VM’s, I noticed that the CentOS system did not have any vmware tools installed. I attempted to run through the standard mount the CD and run the rpm’s, but I was greeted with a message saying I should run the open-vm-tools suite instead.

Install Open VM Tools
yum -y install open-vm-tools

Start the VM Tools Daemon
systemctl start vmtoolsd.service

Enable Startup on Reboot
systemctl enable vmstoolsd.service

service vmtoolsd start
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