You want to reset hardware sensors in the vSphere client connected to vCenter.

From the Hosts and Clusters view select a host, select the Hardware Status tab, and select the Reset sensors button.

From the Hosts and Clusters view select a host, select the Summary tab, select the Reset sensors button.

Select a virtual machine on the host, install the VMware tools, and reboot the host.

Hardware status can only be reset from the command line.