Question about sharedPolicyRefCount setting

[silvernickels]

We have 4 servers in a cluster running ESXi 4.1 U2. I was checking the profile on each host in vSphere and discovered two servers have a Config.GlobalSettings.guest.sharedPolicyRefCount setting of 0 and 2 servers are set to 1. I haven't been able to locate any info about the setting, how to determine an appropiate value, or even a default value. Does anyone have any information?

Thank you,

[Razz007]

Has anyone been able to answer this question? I am experiencing the same issue. Out of 38 Hosts I have 3 that are appearing as Noncompliant when viewing Host Profiles. 35 have a value of 100 and 3 hosts have a value of 0.

Failures Against Host Profile

Option Config.GlobalSettings.guest.commands.sharedPolicyRefCount doesn't match the specified criteria

[cwm08]

Same here. Came across while checking my host profiles today. I have 15 Hosts with the Value set to 100.

Any updates?

[Lost_Steak]

I found this article

http://www.troymitchell.net/vmware-vsphere-esxi-5-5-host-not-compliant-after-updating-vmware-vcenter...

Which resolved it for me. Unfortunately I don't know what this setting actually does though.