esxi/skip-tools

Set the ESXi software install acceptance level.

If set to True, the tools.t00 module will be removed from the modules list at install time of the ESXi node. Since this module is over 155 MB in size, this increases the speed of the install and reduces the bandwidth needed to for pulling down the modules.

This is typically used in a dev/test environment where rapid (re)build of ESXi hypervisors is occuring, or in environments where the Guest tools are staged in an alternate location, or injected in to prebuilt images.

Note

Removing the tools may have an impact on installing the tools in the Guest VM instances if you have not made other arrangements to ensure the tools are installed through some other means.