When the compressed files are downloaded on unix or linux, their extension are somtimes different like gz, zip, tar,  tar.gz. The commands to extract / decompress / unarchive these files are different, so here is the guide:

How to compress /archive  files with “zip”
zip -r filename.zip file1 file2 file2
How to decompress / unarchive / extract .zip [...]

In normal situation, VMware driver update is quite simple if you are installing the driver from VMware driver CD/ ISO image by doing the following three steps:

Mount the driver CD or ISO image
Go to the VMupdates/RPMS/ on the driver CD.
Run the “esxupdate update” command.

However,  some vendors may provide VIB or bundle zip files and  [...]