Sounds like an admin's playground setup - so I'd suggest to forget about the vmware tools and go with whatever drivers are available in that setup. Speed will not be a topic for such a layout, anyway - I assume.
If I remember correctly, at some point Ubuntu switched to open-vm-tools, try this package instead of the old vmware tools. Those packages are based on the source code VMware released, but are open source.
Verify the VMware tools version after upgrading, you can use the vmware-toolbox-cmd -v command. The version should show as 10.3.25.1451 (build-20206839). You can also check the version in the vSphere client, where it should show as 10360 (Current).
There are already several pre-defined storage policies available for customers to choose from and should meet the needs of most use cases right out of the box, however there are some instances where customers need to build specific policies. The New-AVSStoragePolicy function allows you to create new policies or overwrite existing ones with any combination of the following availability, storage rules, or advanced policy rules: FTT, site disaster tolerance, encryption, disk stripes per object, IOPS limit, object space reservation, flash read cache reservation, object checksum, and force provisioning.
no. and there is no vmware-tools service on the ESX. since you are talking about SNMP, the corresponding service should be hostd. unless your change does not solve the issue there is no need to restart hostd.
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