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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Virtual machine tools

Virtual machine tools is a set of utilities installed on the guest OS that improves the overall performance and provides better control of the VM, making administration easier. Virtual machine tools is not installed by default.

Although a guest OS can run without virtual machine tools, the management of power controls and other features is not available unless you install virtual machine tools. Shutdown or restart options, for example, are not available without virtual machine tools. An improved graphics interface, better mouse control, and the ability to copy and paste files are some of the main benefits you will notice after installation.

There are three types of virtual machine tools that you can install:

  • ISOs (containing ...
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