Hello Nick,

Yes that is what I was concerned with. That this may cause me more grief then needed... as the saying: “if it works, don't touch it”.

For the change of configuration on the ESXi side of things. Yes indeed I can configure the vm as requested to: Other 3.x Linux (64-bit) and that might be a better approach to the issue? I tried and I do not think this configuration will have any ill effect with ESXi since the status of the vm went from warning to normal. For both configuration the vm-tools service is acknowledge as running by ESXi. The only thing that I do not know is if ESXi does any specific type of optimization for a CentOS configuration that might have been beneficiary?