open-vm-tools generates lot of NIC limit messages

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • On hosts running Docker (within our OpenShift cluster), VMware open-vm-tools is producing around 50.000 warnings per day in /var/log/vmware-vmsvc.log
  • The latest version of open-vm-tools provided by Red Hat is 10.1.10 (https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/open-vm-tools/10.1.10-3.el7/x86_64/fd431d51/package).
  • Is there an ETA for providing open-vm-tools 10.2.0 or a workaround?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
  • VMware 6.5
  • open-vm-tools-10.1.10-3

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