From the course: vSphere 6.7 Foundations: Deploy and Administer VMs and Apps

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Demo: Install VMware Tools in vSphere 6.7

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Demo: Install VMware Tools in vSphere 6.7

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- [Instructor] In this video, I'll demonstrate how to install VMware Tools on a virtual machine. Now it's very important that you install VMware Tools on every virtual machine that you possibly can. It does a few simple things. Like, for example, improve the way that the mouse works in the console. But is also has some really significant features that are important to the performance of my virtual machines, like, for example, if I want to use the VMXNET 3 virtual nic, that driver is included in VMware Tools. If I want ballooning to be possible on the virtual machine running on my ESXi host, I need VMware Tools because it includes the vmmemctl driver. So there's a bunch of drivers that are baked into VMware Tools that can substantially improve the performance of virtual machines running on an ESXi host. So, we definitely want to do this whenever we possibly can. So, here's a virtual machine running Windows Server 2016…

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