Here is a quick tutorial on how to get VMware Tools up and running on a CentOS 6 Linux machine.  Although the instructions are shown with the GUI, we'll use terminal so the guide works with both gui and non-gui based installs.

1. Mount the VM tools installer to your VM
   
2. Open up Terminal
   
   
3. Execute the following command (this will create a mount point for our CD drive)
   1. mkdir /cdrom
      
      
4. Execute the following command (this will map the CD drive to our cdrom mount point)
   1. mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
      
      
5. Execute the following command to move to your temporary files folder
   1. cd /tmp
      
      
6. Execute the following command to extract the VMware Tools tarball
   1. tar -xvf /cdrom/VMwareTools (tab to autofill the rest of the package)
      
7. Execute the following command to run the VMware Tools installer
   1.  ./vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl
      
      
8. Press Enter/Return through each of the questions, using their defaults
   
   
   
9. Verify VMtools is running by looking at the client status in vSphere