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You're reading from vSphere Virtual Machine Management This tutorial will help VMware administrators fine-tune and expand their expertise with vSphere. From creating and configuring virtual machines to optimizing performance, it's all here in a crystal clear series of chapters.

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781782172185

Length 326 pages

Edition Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Rebecca Fitzhugh

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

vSphere Virtual Machine Management

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Virtual Machine Concepts FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating a Virtual Machine Using the Wizard

3. Other Ways to Provision a Virtual Machine

4. Advanced Virtual Machine Settings

5. Managing Multitiered Applications with vApps

6. Virtual Machine Performance and Resource Allocation

7. Monitoring Virtual Machines

8. Migrating Virtual Machines

9. Balancing Resource Utilization and Availability

10. Virtual Machine Design

Index

Installing VMware Tools

VMware Tools is a utility suite that enhances the performance of a virtual machine's guest OS. If VMware Tools is not installed in the guest operating system, the guest will be lacking in some important functionality. The VMware Tools utility improves virtual machine management by replacing the generic OS drivers with VMware drivers optimized for virtual hardware, as well as with more counters within the performance monitor, the ability to quiesce, and so on.

Installing VMware Tools in a Windows virtual machine

All supported Windows guest operating systems support VMware Tools.

Right-click on the virtual machine in the inventory and navigate to All vCenter Actions | Guest OS | Install/Upgrade VMware Tools within the vSphere Web Client. Alternatively, there is a hyperlink available in the Summary tab of a virtual machine. This is demonstrated in the following screenshot: