Installing ESXi VMWare Tools On CentOS

I needed a quick reference article for installing the VMWare tools on CentOS VM’s that I spin up in the environment.
**EDIT**
I had some problems on some upgraded from xenserver VMs not finding the CDROM. See workthrough here.
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1,
Mount the VMWare tools on the virtual machine.
do a quick update/prereq

#yum install make gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers glibc-headers perl

2,

#mkdir /mnt/cdrom

3,

#mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

4,

#cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-(insertversionhere).tar.gz ~

5,

#tar zxf ~/VMwareTools-(insertversionhere).tar.gz
#rm -Rf ~/VMwareTools-(insertversionhere).tar.gz

6,

#perl ~/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-config-tools.pl

7,
Walkthrough prompts

8,

#rm -Rf ~/vmware-tools-distrib