The message I'm getting from VMware support is to use open-vm-tools with the deploypkg for newer versions of linux. The linux tools installer included with esxi even requires a new flag to silently install now on newer linux flavors. Hacking up the guest customization script is something I will look into. Might even crack open the one that's included with the 5.8 service provider edition to see what that looks like. Thanks for the help!
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