Repetitive message 'vmsvc: [ warning] [guestinfo] Too many partitions' in RHEL guest on VMWare

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Issue

  • On a RHEL guest with a large number of mount points running in VMWare environment, open-vm-tools repetitively logs message like
    vmsvc: [ warning] [guestinfo] Too many partitions

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x guest on VMWare (RHEL 6.x)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x guest on VMWare (RHEL 7.x)
  • open-vm-tools 9.0.1-2

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