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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes to help you design a powerful virtual infrastructure based on vSphere 6.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789801514
Length 392 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Hersey Cartwright Hersey Cartwright
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Mike Brown Mike Brown
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Preface 1. The Virtual Data Center FREE CHAPTER 2. The Discovery Process 3. The Design Factors 4. vSphere Management Design 5. vSphere Storage Design 6. vSphere Network Design 7. vSphere Compute Design 8. vSphere Physical Design 9. Virtual Machine Design 10. vSphere Security Design 11. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity 12. Design Documentation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Upgrading and installing VMware Tools

VMware Tools enhances the performance and improves the management of virtual machines. It does this 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 machine's Summary page, as shown in the following screenshot:

Status of VMware Tools on the VM summary tab

The drivers for the optimized paravirtual hardware, such as the VMXNET3 adapter and the PVSCSI adapter, are included in VMware Tools, and VMware Tools must be installed before the hardware is available for use within the guest. VMware Tools should be installed and kept up to date for every guest operating system...

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