VMWare Virtual Machines | Open VM Tools Installation and Configuration
Open VM Tools are open source implementations of the VMware tools. These tools enhances the performance of the virtual machine's guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Open VM tools enable many features on the VMware virtual machines such as but not limited to
Clock Sync between guest VM and ESX hosts.
Support for VMware virtual hardware devices and drivers.
Generation of Heart beat from guest to the ESX host for HA purposes.
Graceful power on/off operations of the guest machines.
Why open-vm-tools are better then the traditional VMware tools
Open VM Tools are managed within the guest operating system.
No compatibility matrix checks required.
Open VM Tools are provided by OS vendor after testing.
Updates are easy as simple using yum.
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VMware Support for Open VM Tools
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mic...
