Upgrading and installing VMware Tools

VMware Tools enhances performance and improves the management of virtual machines by loading optimized drivers for virtual hardware and installing utilities to access virtual machine configurations and metrics. VMware Tools is not required, but for optimal virtual machine performance, it should be installed on all virtual machines in the environment. The status of VMware Tools is displayed on the virtual machines Summary page, as shown in the following screenshot:

Upgrading and installing VMware Tools

The drivers for the optimized paravirtual hardware, such as the VMXNET3 adapter and the PVSCSI adapter, are included in VMware Tools, and VMware Tools ...

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