In order to install VMware Tools On Debian you will be employing a two step process. First you will need to right click on the Virtual Machine in vSphere and choose “guest” > “Install/Upgrade VMware Tools” pictured left.
Next you will need to run the following commands in terminal. This procedure works for every version of Debian from 6 up through and including version 7.3. Please make note that these commands can easily be pasted into a bash script and run that way. Also note that line 1 of the script will remove OpenVM Tools if they are installed and line 10 will install VMware Tools with the default options and will not require user input.
apt-get remove --purge open-vm* -y && apt-get autoremove -y sudo mkdir -p /media/cdrom sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom cd /media/cdrom sudo cp VM*.tar.gz /tmp cd /tmp sudo umount /media/cdrom sudo tar xzvf VM*.tar.gz cd vmware-tools-distrib sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d rm -r /media/cdrom