You should ALWAYS install VMWare tools on VMware virtual machines, even Ubnut/ Linux servers without a GUI.
Start by selecting Install VMWare tools in the vSphere web client, select Mount to verify
Open a console through the web client or an SSH session to the server:
ssh user@hostname
Create the /mnt/cdrom folder if it doesn’t exist:
sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom
Mount the tools:
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
Copy the VMware tools file to another folder (tmp):
cd /mnt/cdrom
cp VMwareTools-9.0.11-1743336.tar.gz /tmp/
Unmount the drive (doesn’t always work):
sudo umount /dev/cdrom
Untar the file in tmp:
cd /tmp/
tar zxf VMwareTools-9.0.11-1743336.tar.gz
Run the installer, defaults are usually fine except that I usually select to enable automatic kernel modules. This allows VMware Tools to install missing modules if there is a kernel upgrade or change
cd vmware-tools-distrib/
sudo ./vmware-install.pl