I have began deploying VMWare Tools to all my VMs within the network. Install goes fine and a day later my one co-worker makes me aware of an immediate increase in log traffic, I go and review event viewer and a majority of my VMs are literally flooded every second with [Warnings]
Examples of these warnings are
[Warning] [vmsvc:guestinfo] Failed to send vmstats
[ Warning ] [vmsvc:guestinfo] Error sending GuestMemInfo
[ Warning [vmsvc:guestinfo] Failed to update key/value pair for type 7
I am trying to identify what could cause this however I have tried some things such as
creating tools.conf file in the appropiate location (c:/document and settings/all users/appdata/)
the file had the following entries
[LOGGING] log = true vmtoolsd.level = debug vmtoolsd.handler = file vmtoolsd.data = c:/tmp/vmtoolsd.log
restarted the VMWare Services and the [Warnings] are still being generated inside of Event Viewer
I also tried log = false and removed the entries below and same results. Instead of just disabling the Logs completely I would like to identify why the guestinfo data is failing to transmit but most important is eliminating the insane amount of log entries being generated second by second.