VMware Tools 10.0.12 provides freezing-point support or baseline functionality for several operating systems:
For Windows, open-vm-tools does not exist—you always use the proprietary ISO.
These frozen ISOs are not bundled with newer ESXi hosts but are available for manual download. This version is also compatible with ESXi 5.5 (Patch ESXi550-201608001), ESXi 6.0, and later versions.