According to the page, the virtual CD/DVD drive should be set to 'Auto Detect' so that VMWare would let the user install VMWare Tools. Hoping to find a fix, I began to look around and came across official documentation on VMWare's support portal. Oddly, when I clicked the Manage option the install VMWare tools option was grayed out. I even remember the message log displaying the notification that the tools had been downloaded.
I knew that I had chosen the option to download VMWare tools when creating the virtual machine.