How to Install Open VMware Tools on CentOS 8

VMware Tools are very important role plays when working with VMware Player, VMware Workstation Pro, VMware ESXi or vSphere. If VMware Tools are installed on a guest, it will report back to the VMware hypervisor guest’s IP address, CPU usage, disk usage, memory usage etc. Installing VMware Tools on a Linux machine requires a few extra steps compared to Windows. RPM based installation performed on CentOS 8 and related packages are available in its default’s repository.

How to Install/Reinstall ssl on CentOS 7

Openssl is a base package of ssl binaries and available in default repository CentOS 7 minimal installation. If removed by accident or broken, the package can be installed or reinstalled again using yum. openssl is an essential tool of any Linux distributions to work with various certificates.